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#1 04-01-09 11:09 pm

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2. Recycling the Suburbs

2. Recycling the Suburbs <BR> <BR><blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>... <BR> <BR>The suburbs need to be remade, and just such a transformation is under way in regions that were known for some of the worst sprawl in the U.S. Communities as diverse as Lakewood, Colo., and Long Beach, Calif., have repurposed boarded-up malls as mixed-use developments with retail stores, offices and apartments. In auto-dependent suburbs that were built without a traditional center, shopping malls offer the chance to create downtowns without destroying existing infrastructure, by recycling what&#39;s known as underperforming asphalt. &#34;All of these projects are developer-driven, because the market wants them,&#34; says Ellen Dunham-Jones, a co-author of the new book Retrofitting Suburbia. <BR> <BR>...<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

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