CQGRD Calendar
Healthy Places Research Group- December Meeting
Ellen Dunham-Jones, Associate Professor, College of Architecture at Georgia Tech, will speak about her book Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs and the upcoming CNU 2010 Conference Rx for Healthy Places. She will give us a tour of Perimeter Place, a redeveloped suburban shopping center and provide her insights on the bad– as well as the good– elements of the development.
*More details about the tour shortly*
About the Book
While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighborhoods on the periphery of cities, there has been little attention to the redesign and redevelopment of existing suburbs. Here is a comprehensive guidebook for architects, planners, urban designers, and developers that illustrates how existing suburbs can be redesigned and redeveloped. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, show how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic conditions.
