Architectural Record: What's going on in terms of thinking about the suburbs today?
There has been an explosion of interest in the suburban landscape within the design community. The suburbs are where a majority of the American population lives and these places have aged and changed in challenging ways. Retrofitting or remaking or infilling suburbia is going to be the big design and development project for the next half century. We spent 50 to 60 years building it up, so we're going to have to spend an equivalent period of time restructuring, infilling, and remaking it, especially in the context of challenges such as climate change, oil scarcity, affordability, and changing demographics.
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