CURBED captures EIGHT IDEAS for rethinking suburbia, from eliminating single-family zoning to densifying sprawl to reducing carbon footprints. The results include undoing the long-term impacts of segregation and addressing the realities of rising poverty.

1. WALKING
2. EMISSIONS
3. AGING
4. LAWNS
5. LAND USE
6. POVERTY
7. SCHOOLS
8. ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Article: curbed.com

Photo: Hampstead, AL

 

 

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