The Next Big Infrastructure Crisis? Age-Proofing Our Streets

The prospect of an aging suburbia poses a challenge to the whole way we’ve been designing communities in America, not just how we lay crosswalks and print tiny-font bus schedules. The AARP estimates that there are more than 8 million older people in America who don’t drive. By 2030, that number will likely be more than 14 million. "When I think about that scale, it's catastrophic. It's just simply catastrophic," Waerstad says. Read more.