Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, is a professor of architecture and
urban design at Georgia Tech School of Architecture in Atlanta
and the co-author of Retrofitting SuburbiaAs part of the Hanley
Wood Sustainability Council for 2014, she will lead the Vision
2020 initiative in Sustanable Communities.    What do you mean
by “regreen” them?    Are these developments picking up speed?
It’s hard to say if the momentum has picked up or that since I
wrote my book [Retrofitting Suburbia], people tell me about more
projects, but when we went to press in 2008, we had 80 case
studies. Today, my database has more than 800.  What do you
think are the biggest challenges with these projects?  First,
there has to be a market because when you’re dealing with a
failed property, there is a reason that it failed. In the case
of a mall, it is usually that a new mall opened and attracted
new shops. If you’re taking the old mall and trying to simply
re-create the same amount of retail square footage but also put
in residential or office s