Retrofitting Suburbia series, today announced the publication of
Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges. The first in the series (2009) sparked a national dialogue on transforming and revitalizing our nation s communities, including what to do with the plethora of America s dying malls. The book was met with critical acclaim and was featured in The New York Times, CBS, NPR, TED, Time, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. The Chicago Tribune called it the Bible of the retrofitting movement.
Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia Our ambition [in writing this book] was to engage with a larger, continuing set of challenges, given that suburbia