Saving Suburbia Part II: Getting the Soccer Moms On Your Side

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The Living Market, a plan to redevelop vacant land to create a Marketplace of community space, shops, and affordable housing. Image courtesy of Emily Talen, Sungduck Lee, and the Long Island Index.

This Article is the second of a two-part series, “Saving Suburbia.” If you missed Part I, “Bursting the Bubble”, you can find it here.

Suburbia has a problem. We’ve known it for a while. We’ve chosen to ignore it.

Why? Because the suburbs are difficult. And just… not sexy. We have become so enamored with our cities, with their various complexities and potential for sustainability, that the suburbs, with their single-family home and deep carbon footprint, seem a backwards architectural wasteland.

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Cite: Vanessa Quirk. "Saving Suburbia Part II: Getting the Soccer Moms On Your Side" 27 Apr 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/229397/saving-suburbia-part-ii-getting-the-soccer-moms-on-your-side> ISSN 0719-8884

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