No longer can the simplistic idea of 9-5 commuting to the city centre and role of the local shop define suburbia. Increasingly suburbia presents the perfect location for personalised cities built on a modern day mantra of choice and personal mobility. This shift in behaviour has significant impact on the nature of how we understand and classify suburbs, and how we comprehend the infrastructures which support suburbia.
This project aims to develop a series of integrated ‘next practice’ toolkits that can span the design of the built environment, social software, policy and service delivery in line with the interdependent challenges of sustainability. In process, developing a series of propositions that are based on the effective design of supply chains – water, energy etc and the efficient use of mobility – rather than seeking to rebuild romantic notions of the local.
