Graying Suburbs

Audio from the National Building Museum

Series: Sustainable Communities
Presented By: Ellen Dunham-Jones and Jeffery W. Anderzhon
Date Recorded: May 7, 2009
Duration: 01:31:34

As America’s elderly population continues to grow, municipalities face new challenges of providing adequate services. Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, of the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, and Jeffery W. Anderzhon, FAIA, 2006 chair of AIA’s Design for Aging Advisory Board, discuss solutions to this upcoming demographic crisis. Elinor Ginzler, AARP’s senior vice president for Livable Communities, moderates.

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