Monday, June 29, 2009

Urban Retrofits: How to Make a City Green -- Without Tearing It Down



Michael Fitzgerald writes an interesting article in the Boston Globe with a number of suggestions for "retrofitting. In the past several years, engineers, urban planners, and entrepreneurs have come up with imaginative new ways to take what we now know about living more energy-efficiently, and grafting that technology onto cities without clearing away what’s already there." Suggestions include reskinning, bikes on demand, smart grids, mobility hubs, solar rentals and

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