Empty America

America is suffering from a glut of underused space- our homes, offices, and shopping centers. How can we get more efficient in our use of space? Alison Arieff has this report.

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March 28, 2010, 7:00 AM PDT

By Tim Halbur

Arieff says that GIS (geographic information systems) is creating new ways to understand how space gets used, and how we can be more efficient in that use.

She writes, "That level of specificity, both at the micro and macro level, is helping revolutionize the way we think about, plan for and design the space we inhabit (or abandon). A visual map can show us patterns of overbuilding, abandonment, mis- (or lack of) use; it can teach us something about our current tendency to overbuild."

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