Rethinking Sprawl with Galina Tachieva

Florida has been described as “the poster child for sprawl.” Galina Tachieva, Managing Partner at DPZ CoDESIGN in Miami and author of the award-winning Sprawl Repair Manual, discusses strategies to enhance suburban communities to meet the needs of today by introducing connectivity, a sense of place, mixed uses, greater housing choices, and more. Galina starts with an overview of urban design principles and recent development trends. She covers the retrofitting of large areas such as shopping centers, as well as opportunities to bring smaller-scale, incremental changes to the suburbs through lean sprawl repair tools. The session finishes with a question-and-answer period.