"And as malls and office parks shutter, communities are looking for ways to revitalize these spaces to fit modern work and retail habits," explains Ellen Dunham-Jones, co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs and a professor of architecture and urban design at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Click here to listen to interview with Ellen Dunham-Jones: Suburban Office Campus Decline by Berkley Wilson on The Takeaway

Also watch Ellen Dunham-Jones on TEDx talk, "Retrofitting suburbia."