Playbook for Green Buildings + Neighborhoods | Neighborhoods | Lunch Break: A presentation on retrofitting suburbia

"In the last 50 years, we've been building the suburbs with a lot of unintended consequences." Ezra Klein presents interesting projects that give us "tremendous reasons to be really optimistic that the big design and development project of the next 50 years is going to be retrofitting suburbia."

July 1, 2010

"In the last 50 years, we've been building the suburbs with a lot of unintended consequences. I'm going to talk about some of those consequences and present a whole bunch of really interesting projects that I think give us tremendous reasons to be really optimistic that the big design and development project of the next 50 years is going to be retrofitting suburbia..."

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