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Video: Time to Urbanize Suburbia

Posted by: Irvin Dawid
Thanks to: Mike Keenly
6 July 2010 - 8:00am

The Washington Post's Ezra Klein suggests readers watch this 20-minute TED video featuring Georgia Tech's Ellen Dunham Jones, author of "Retrofitting Suburbia." Jones talks to the importance of making suburbs greener by retrofitting to urbanize them.

The talk was given in January, 2010 in Atlanta, GA. She states that retrofitting malls and other suburban fixtures "gives us a tremendous opportunity to taking our least sustainable landscapes and convert them into more sustainable places".

Full Story: Lunch break: A very cool presentation on retrofitting suburbia:
Source: Washington Post: Ezra Klein, July 1, 2010
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