Posts about Sustainability

Stuck in the Middle—What can save the average American mall?

Erich Dohrer doesn’t want to talk about the “dead mall” or the great mall success story—he wants to talk about design solutions for the ones that are just getting by. American malls are having an identity crisis. On one hand, we’ve all heard of the major decline in suburban shopping centers—too much retail square footage […]

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Sustainable Solutions for the Middle of Nowhere

Pablo La Roche, leader of CallisonRTKL’s Performance-Driven DesignSM team, talks about his holistic design approach to the world’s most remote inhabited island. Green, net zero and carbon negative buildings are all the rage. Cities around the globe, from Los Angeles to Shanghai, are vying to cut emissions through tax incentives and transit innovations. But how […]

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A Vehicle for Change

Mark Palmer explores the use of autonomous vehicles to close major gaps in the American healthcare system.    It’s estimated that 62 million Americans have no or inadequate access to primary care, but the rise of autonomous vehicles (AVs) could change that. Healthcare in America has a longstanding relationship with vehicles and the mobility they […]

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Could North Texas be the next “Blue Zone”?

CallisonRTKL’s Noel Aveton discusses how master planners and a handful of visionary developers are creating communities that connect and enhance well-being. What’s a Blue Zone? Blue Zones are places and communities around the world that have been identified as having the world’s healthiest people. These are people who grow older without many of the diseases […]

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