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The Ugliness around Us
Posted by Carol Coletta on February 12, 2009 |
He foresaw the ugliness. The meme of doomed suburbs went mainstream with Chris Leinberger's cover story for the Atlantic magazine last March, “The Next Slum?” The problem, he says, goes much deeper than the foreclosure crisis. It’s part of a painful societal adjustment that will take a generation or more to work through.
Read the Infrastructurist's interview with Chris in which he analyzes the roots of suburbia’s current plight and explains how three straightforward adjustments to infrastructure can save a community.