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Abandoned Suburbia: Too Much of a Bad Thing
January 12, 2009
Somewhere over Guilford County, NC. Image from Google Maps
In her blog, ‘By Design,’ Allison Arieff, the former editor of Dwell magazine, highlights the very interesting question of what’s to be done with increasingly vacant suburbs across the U.S. It has always amazed me how short sighted the planning and approval of these sprawling blights has been. As Arieff points out, these developments are not designed in such a way they can evolve like traditional urban neighborhoods and downtowns. And even besides that, who would want to pour development money into places that are so poorly located and utterly devoid of any sense of place?
What Will Save the Suburbs?
For a long time now I’ve been obsessed with suburban and exurban master-planned communities and how to make them better. But as the economy and the mortgage crisis just seem to get worse, and gas prices continue to plunge, the issues around housing have changed dramatically. The problem now isn’t really how to better design homes and communities, but rather what are we going to do with all the homes and communities we’re left with.
Read the whole article here.
Posted by Wes Kennedy on January 12, 2009 | Comments (0)
