using adaptive reuse to scale the urban future

Posted by – February 7, 2012

How will the city of tomorrow reflect adaptive reuse of the city of today?

I don’t think we ask that question broadly enough, and our day-to-day, property-specific incrementalism can easily overshoot the greatest lessons from history for today’s city politics, regulation and economic constraints.

A hometown case in point, last week, transported me from Seattle to Croatia for inspiration about why we should think beyond limited geographies, time frames and lifetimes when we discuss urban redevelopment options.

Today’s post continues as an exclusive entry at The Atlantic Cities, “What the History of Diocletian’s Palace Can Teach Us About Adaptive Reuse”.  For the remainder, click here.

Image credits: Comparative aerial photos from Wikipedia under a Creative Commons license.


5 Comments on using adaptive reuse to scale the urban future

  1. Lis Duarte says:

    using adaptive reuse to scale the urban future http://t.co/mBOW7uCk via @AndreaLearned

  2. [Urbanism Info] using adaptive reuse to scale the urban future http://t.co/7X9KFMGB | via #myurbanist

  3. [Urbanism Info] using adaptive reuse to scale the urban future http://t.co/7X9KFMGB | via #myurbanist

  4. RT @crwolfelaw: A myurbanist teaser to The Atlantic Cities… http://t.co/vIYWrcu9 |Adaptive reuse to scale the urban future… Intg!

  5. Lee Evans says:

    Interesting blog post on rethinking how we evolve out cities @landurb @urbnfutr @terrafluxus @strongtowns http://t.co/DW67wNjM

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