RETROFITTING SUBURBIA
Speaker and Author Ellen Dunham-Jones
THURSDAY . SEPTEMBER 17 6:15 pm@ The Brooks Museum of Art 1934 Poplar Avenue
cost: free for museum members / non-members regular admission
Ever considered what can be done with the abandoned strip malls, dying office parks, and other signs of suburban growth gone wrong? There are solutions! Come hear how other cities are responding to a national problem.
Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, is a world-renowned expert on urban and suburban design. As the director of the architecture program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, an award-winning architect and a board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, she shows audiences how design of where we live impacts some of the most pressing issues of our times—reducing our ecological footprint and energy consumption while improving our health and communities and providing living options for all ages. In particular, she shows how changing has been featured in media that include CNN, CBS, Newsweek, Time, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Boston Globe and has authored more than 35 articles or chapters in books on design, architecture and sustainability demographics like fewer households with children will change how we build.
As co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley, January 2009), she and June Williamson explore more than 50 case studies across North America of “underperforming asphalt properties” that have been redesigned and redeveloped into walkable, sustainable vital centers of community—libraries, city halls, town centers, schools and more. She has received more than 20 awards for her work in architectural design, education and research, and serves on the editorial boards for the journals Places and The Urbanist in addition to several local and national boards. Dunham-Jones has been featured in media that include CNN, CBS, Newsweek, Time, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Boston Globe, and has authored more than 35 articles and chapters in books on design, architecture and sustainability.
Sponsors: Audio Video Artistry Triton Stone Group W.G. Yates & Sons Construction
Presenting Partners: Brooks Museum of Art Court Square Center Memphis Regional Design Center ULI Memphis USGBC Memphis
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