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Peter Calthorpe: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Guests
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Peter Calthorpe
Principal Architect, Peter Calthorpe Associates
Summary
It’s a love story gone horribly wrong. Big cars, ever-bigger homes, distant suburbs – all of it kept afloat by cheap oil. If this American arrangement ever made sense, it certainly doesn’t now, Peter Calthorpe says.
Peter Calthorpe, Founder, Calthorpe Associates; Author, Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change