Time to reinvent the suburbs

By Selina Mason2020-05-21T05:00:00

As city centres lose their lure, suburbia may need to adapt to a more rich mix of needs, says Lendlease’s Selina Mason

Cities are made by transactions; they have been built over centuries on multiple transactions and exchanges that ripple out from one person or trader to the next. Clearly anything that inhibits this selling and buying will have a profound effect on those places.

I think of all those small transactions I would have made during my working day, the dry cleaning, the sandwich, the coffee, a stop off at the grocer on the way home, all these and the thousands like them are all gone.

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