salvaging suburbia?

Many people write off suburbia as unsalvageable. But given the growing human population (let's not forget displaced climate-change refugees), can we afford to give up on the suburbs?

Retrofitting and redesigning the suburbs might help to keep suburbanites in their neighbourhoods instead of moving to the countryside or into high-density cities.

What could suburbia look like in the future? Various scenarios are described at Raise the Hammer's "Suburbia Project":

www.raisethehammer.org/sections.asp?sect=Suburbia_Project