![Participants sketching in a retrofitting suburbia workshop. June and Ellen regularly offer workshops for designers, urban planners, and students.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608670086846-TNLC1S6H34D14JW2DWNX/IMG_5550_jw.jpg)
Participants sketching in a retrofitting suburbia workshop. June and Ellen regularly offer workshops for designers, urban planners, and students.
![Built over a culverted creek that flooded regularly, the Meriden Hub mall has become Meriden Green: a flood-protection stormwater park that includes new and relocated housing.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608767049911-DMBDC7MHI5O6VD8J6JWL/II.30-1_MeridenGreen_authors-2.jpg)
Built over a culverted creek that flooded regularly, the Meriden Hub mall has become Meriden Green: a flood-protection stormwater park that includes new and relocated housing.
![Before and after figure-field diagrams of Mueller, TX, a mixed-use, mixed-income, energy- and water-efficient redevelopment of a decommissioned airport.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608767058607-UAOUOD3MVH1ZNVW3BT5Y/II.12_Mueller-diagrams_authors-2.jpg)
Before and after figure-field diagrams of Mueller, TX, a mixed-use, mixed-income, energy- and water-efficient redevelopment of a decommissioned airport.
![Delano Stewart Plaza, flanked with mixed-use buildings, replaced parking lots and brownfields in Wyandanch, a lower income hamlet in Suffolk County, NY.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608670084442-E6AQK7MXL4GVYZHB1LS7/II.29-4a_Wyandanch_pj.jpg)
Delano Stewart Plaza, flanked with mixed-use buildings, replaced parking lots and brownfields in Wyandanch, a lower income hamlet in Suffolk County, NY.
![The mixed-use redevelopment of a cinemaplex into The Mosaic District centers on a programmed town green enjoyed by residents and neighbors.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608670084079-WN37Q1OOPII4NC5OJBJL/II.23-1b_Mosaic_pj.jpg)
The mixed-use redevelopment of a cinemaplex into The Mosaic District centers on a programmed town green enjoyed by residents and neighbors.
![As part of its retrofit into an ethnic community hub, an anchor store at the renamed Plaza Fiesta mall near Atlanta was reinhabited with small booths for mostly immigrant-owned and run businesses.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608670078604-BVU3E1N8A8I4RPV454AL/II.9-5_PlazaFiesta_pj.jpg)
As part of its retrofit into an ethnic community hub, an anchor store at the renamed Plaza Fiesta mall near Atlanta was reinhabited with small booths for mostly immigrant-owned and run businesses.
![Grow DeSoto Market has reinhabited a strip mall with a small-business incubator, regreened a swath of the parking lot into a twinkle-lit networking space.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608670059504-90LFVJ522GQYFHEHQBU5/I.5-7a_GrowDeSoto_pj.jpg)
Grow DeSoto Market has reinhabited a strip mall with a small-business incubator, regreened a swath of the parking lot into a twinkle-lit networking space.
![Now thriving and renamed The BLVD, Main Street in Lancaster, CA, was retrofitted from five travel lanes to two with parking/event space in the middle.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608670058834-4T2OJNSF7IY4QQ44E9QH/II.6-4a_BLVD_Lancaster_edj.jpg)
Now thriving and renamed The BLVD, Main Street in Lancaster, CA, was retrofitted from five travel lanes to two with parking/event space in the middle.
![Participants sketching in a retrofitting suburbia workshop. June and Ellen regularly offer workshops for designers, urban planners, and students.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608670086846-TNLC1S6H34D14JW2DWNX/IMG_5550_jw.jpg)
![Built over a culverted creek that flooded regularly, the Meriden Hub mall has become Meriden Green: a flood-protection stormwater park that includes new and relocated housing.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608767049911-DMBDC7MHI5O6VD8J6JWL/II.30-1_MeridenGreen_authors-2.jpg)
![Before and after figure-field diagrams of Mueller, TX, a mixed-use, mixed-income, energy- and water-efficient redevelopment of a decommissioned airport.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608767058607-UAOUOD3MVH1ZNVW3BT5Y/II.12_Mueller-diagrams_authors-2.jpg)
![Delano Stewart Plaza, flanked with mixed-use buildings, replaced parking lots and brownfields in Wyandanch, a lower income hamlet in Suffolk County, NY.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608670084442-E6AQK7MXL4GVYZHB1LS7/II.29-4a_Wyandanch_pj.jpg)
![The mixed-use redevelopment of a cinemaplex into The Mosaic District centers on a programmed town green enjoyed by residents and neighbors.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608670084079-WN37Q1OOPII4NC5OJBJL/II.23-1b_Mosaic_pj.jpg)
![As part of its retrofit into an ethnic community hub, an anchor store at the renamed Plaza Fiesta mall near Atlanta was reinhabited with small booths for mostly immigrant-owned and run businesses.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608670078604-BVU3E1N8A8I4RPV454AL/II.9-5_PlazaFiesta_pj.jpg)
![Grow DeSoto Market has reinhabited a strip mall with a small-business incubator, regreened a swath of the parking lot into a twinkle-lit networking space.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608670059504-90LFVJ522GQYFHEHQBU5/I.5-7a_GrowDeSoto_pj.jpg)
![Now thriving and renamed The BLVD, Main Street in Lancaster, CA, was retrofitted from five travel lanes to two with parking/event space in the middle.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f70dad2a465525351396166/1608670058834-4T2OJNSF7IY4QQ44E9QH/II.6-4a_BLVD_Lancaster_edj.jpg)