Ellen Dunham-Jones will, thanks to SFU’s Urban Studies program, be in Vancouver this fall as a ‘visiting fellow in sustainable urban development.’ Since the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board is one sponsor of this fellowship, she’ll be speaking in Surrey at the SFU campus (City Centre) on October 28 at 7 pm.
She’ll also be the VIA Architecture lecturer on Urban Design, speaking at SFU Harbour Centre on October 26 at 7 pm.
Reservation information will be available on the SFU City Program and Urban Studies websites closer to the event.
In the meantime, here’s her TED Talk:
Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years’ big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead “big box” stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed into thriving wetlands.
She is the co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs. She and co-author June Williamson share more than 50 case studies across North America of “underperforming asphalt properties” that have been redesigned and redeveloped into walkable, sustainable vital centers of community—libraries, city halls, town centers, schools and more.
