SMARTer Together, Ep. #19: Retrofitting Suburbia

Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges, second in a series by Georgia Tech Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones, documents how defunct shopping malls, parking lots, and the past century's other obsolete suburban development patterns are being retrofitted to address current urgent challenges they weren't designed for: improving public health, increasing resilience in the face of climate change, leveraging social capital for equity, supporting an aging society, competing for jobs, and disrupting automobile dependence. The author Ellen Dunham-Jones, as well as panelists Samyukth Shenbaga, and Sarah Kirsch, discuss Retrofitting Suburbia.