What the Future Holds for American Cities in 2020 & Beyond
The beginning of a new year is a great time to take stock of what’s going on around us. It’s also a time when we often find ourselves looking to the future. For those working in the built environment, what does the future, in 2020 and beyond, hold? As a starting point in gathering this type of knowledge, we reached out to Tom Schultz, architect at The Architectural Team (TAT), a 95+ person architecture firm headquartered in Boston. Forecasts of the increased concentration of the world’s population in urban areas requires new approaches to residential development and re-development. As gentrification moves through city neighborhoods, combatting displacement requires increased focus on affordable housing. Green spaces and public parks are required to make cities livable. TAT has been actively engaged in thinking about these problems and more importantly in doing something about them. 1) The affordability puzzle: Keeping neighborhoods accessible “In growing …
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