The MIT
Center for Advanced Urbanism believes it is time to explore how the suburbs may
be improved through better design and planning. What new land tenure models are
needed to ensure that suburbs will become the frontier of innovation, tapping
into flexible land-use to enable experimental economies, programs, and
building? What technological innovations and productive systems will be
embedded within suburban development to allow for self-sufficiency, or even
perhaps to become a net producer of food, water, and energy? How do new forms
of suburbs in these contexts evolve over time? The Future of
Suburbia conference will outline four design frameworks that project a future
that is heterogeneous, experimental, autonomous and productive. Each of these
themes will be explored by panelists from a broad array of fields including:
design, architecture, urban planning, history and demographics, policy, energy,
mobility, health, environment, economics, and applied and future technologies. https://issuu.com/sienascarff/docs/caufosprogramfinalissuu http://cau.mit.edu/conference/future-suburbia