Adaptive reuse and the ever-changing nature of buildings

Big cities have a lot of these beautiful corpses at the moment./nFans of adaptive reuse want these buildings to become housing./nThe greenness building is one that's already built./nConverting downtown offices into housing doesn't raise concerns around gentrification and neighborhood opposition./nEmily Badger is a reporter for The Upshot at The New York Times./nChanging the activity that's happening inside the building doesn't change the overall look of a property or neighborhood./nConverting offices into housing can be a future possibility for housing development./nConverting offices into housing can avoid neighborhood opposition./nThe speaker wanted to see an office to residential conversion up close.