Can We Uninvent Suburbia?

exploring efforts to “uninvent” suburbia in industrialized countries — and how to avoid having it be the new norm around cities in fast-growing developing countries. Experiments in the United States include turning old malls into walkable villages with housing, small retail businesses, and the like — somewhat like small-scale, less-grand variants of Masdar — the $22 billion car-free, solar-powered city for which ground was broken on Saturday next to the Abu Dhabi international airport.