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Next American City » Buzz » Sympathy for the Suburbs
"But Foreclosed seethes with disdain for the suburbs, and the lack of an empathetic understanding of how the suburbs function and are changing, ultimately makes the exhibit look less visionary than ignorant…

These radical visions that are so insensitive to the suburbs remind me of the Modernist public housing projects that were once foisted on inner cities. Created by well-intentioned but essentially ignorant architects and planners, those buildings made sense in theory but not in practice. They didn’t respond to the rhythms and needs of the people who would be housed there, because the architects didn’t really respect or understand the lives of poor people. MoMA should have found some architects who could love and live in the suburbs, showing us the way to make the most of suburban housing instead of wishing it didn’t exist."
hilarysample  michaelmeredith  losangeles  oregon  illinois  california  florida  newjersey  templeterrace  theoranges  cicero  keizer  rialto  cities  edglaeser  misregistration  repurposing  revitalization  infrastructure  jeannegang  WORKac  foreclosed  barrybergdoll  housing  andrewzago  buellhypothesis  moma  design  planning  poverty  urbanism  urban  architecture  suburbia  suburbs  2012  foreclosure  housingbubble  housingcrisis  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
The Astounding Design Of Eixample, Barcelona | All That Is Interesting
"Constructed in the early 20th century, Eixample is a district of the Spanish city of Barcelona known for the urban planning that divided the district into octagonal blocks. Influenced by a range of schools of architecture, Eixample was designed in a grid pattern with long streets, wide avenues, and rounded street corners. Despite being in the center of a thriving European metropolis, the district provides improved living conditions for inhabitants including extensive sun light, improved ventilation, and more open green space for public use. And of course, the result from the grid-like structure is astounding from above:"
barcelona  españa  design  architecture  urban  urbanism  urbanplanning  urbandesign  eixample  cities  housing 
october 2011 by robertogreco
tiny houses | pdx : rlingard.com
"This project provides an affordable, infill development alternative for entry-level Portland, Oregon home buyers. On a single 50'x100', 4 compact single family houses share the space of a typical, single family residence. The operable fence partitions and interior layout of these homes allows each living space to open either to the communal garden space, the private courtyard or both. Modular construction is used to minimize construction waste, increase quality and performance, and maintains the project's tight budget goals."
ryanlingard  portland  oregon  architecture  homes  housing  tinyhouses  small  design  architects  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
New Ways of Designing the Modern Workspace - NYTimes.com
"Adjustable desks, foldout benches & louvered shades have their place but…furniture is not the problem…But in the same way that bamboo floors, hybrid SUVs and eco-couture haven’t done much to curb carbon emissions, designing (& buying) more stuff for offices, no matter how sleek or sustainable it is, likely won’t help reset the culture of work.<br />
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Design itself is the problem because it is being used to solve the wrong ones…has to expand beyond noodling with the cubicle. I’m willing to bet that almost any office worker would happily swap Webcam lighting…for solutions to more pressing work issues like…burnout or fear of losing health coverage…<br />
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Two other factors often undervalued (and often ignored) in the workplace? Family and time…<br />
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We shouldn’t be rethinking the cubicle or corner office but rather rethinking all aspects of work…"
psychology  work  design  officedesign  allisonarieff  cubicles  classrooms  schooldesign  sustainability  productivity  life  families  parenting  time  workplace  workspace  nathanshedroff  furniture  homes  housing  babysitting  childcare  flexibility  coworking  efficiency  yiconglu  serbanionescu  jimdreilein  justinsmith  theminerandmajorproject  architecture  interiors  interiordesign  environmentaldesign  environment  broodwork  florianidenburg  jingliu  commonground  eames  froebel  kindergarten  andrewberardini  larrysummers  rachelbotsman  creativity  innovation  2011  autonomy  learning  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
‪Teddy Cruz Presentation‬‏ - YouTube
"We can be the producers of new conceptions of citzenship in the reorganizing of resources and collaborations across jurisdictions and communities…We could be the designers of political process, of alternative economic frameworks."<br />
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[via: http://www.diygradschool.com/2010/06/professor-teddy-cruz-ucsd.html ]
teddycruz  cities  citizenship  sandiego  tijuana  watershed  conflict  borders  community  communities  militaryzones  military  environment  infromal  formal  collaboration  2009  housing  crisis  density  sprawl  natural  political  art  architecture  design  urban  urbanization  urbanism  recycling  openendedness  open  vernacular  systems  construction  economics  culture  pacificocean  exchanges  flow  landuse  neweconomies  micropolitics  microeconomies  local  scale  interventions  intervention  communitiesofpractice  crossborder  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
James Enos talks about Clairemont on Vimeo
His informal presentation on the critique of Clairemont from Pecha Kucha on April 20th. The piece discussed in his rant is currently on show at MCASD in La Jolla's "Here Not There" opening.
1951  tracthomes  clairemont  jamesenos  informal  sandiego  architecture  herenotthere  mcasd  pechakucha  housing  alterations  art  design  vernacular  entitlement  dwellmagazine  dwell  clairemonterasure  suburbs  suburbia  parametricarchitecture  juxtaposition  realestate  commentary  tracthousing  criticalpractice  whatwewant  socal  buildingboom  southpark  humor  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
ULI San Diego/Tijuana
"The ULI San Diego/Tijuana District Council provides leadership in the responsible use of land to enhance the total environment. The District Council addresses issues involving land use, real estate, housing, transportation and urban development."
sandiego  tijuana  uli  urban  urbanism  housing  transportation  development  urbandevelopment  realestate  landuse  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Versus | Duro debate por el futuro crecimiento de Santiago - Emol TV
"El destacado arquitecto Mathias Klotz y el Intendente de Santiago, Fernando Echeverria, enfrentan sus puntos ante el nuevo plan regulador que expandirá nuevamente los límites de la Región Metropolitana."
santiago  chile  mathiasklotz  growth  urban  urbanplanning  urbanism  via:javierarbona  poverty  class  money  policy  politics  development  housing  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Shaping the City: Seeking a new template for truly smart growth - The Washington Post
"A more demographically complex society induces cultural and economic shifts, including perceptions about urban life. Reportedly a majority of Americans, especially young adults and senior citizens, now prefer living in walkable neighborhoods and sustainably designed communities characterized by diverse land uses and a broad array of civic amenities. Their close-to-home wish list includes: transit access; plenty of shopping; cultural, recreational and entertainment venues; parks and playgrounds; good public schools; health-care services, and job opportunities. Affordable housing is also on the list.<br />
Shifting demographics, along with increasing consumer interest in a more-urban existence, are redefining the real estate market. This requires rethinking how we plan, regulate, design and build — or rebuild — parts of suburbs and the cities they encircle. To respond to evolving market forces, new templates for truly smart growth are needed. Such templates must do the following…"
cities  trends  urban  urbanism  sprawl  urbanplanning  smartgrowth  us  suburbs  suburbia  housing  walking  publictransit  economics  change  2011  rogerlewis  walkability  diversity  sustainability  community  neighborhoods  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Getting It Right: What Is Brad Pitt Really Doing for New Orleans? - Cities - GOOD
"When Brad Pitt showed up to help fix New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward, it raised hope—and eyebrows. Is his high-design, low-income green housing project what the neighborhood needs? GOOD investigates."
architecture  green  community  neworleans  williammcdonough  katrina  reconstruction  leed  ninthward  makeitright  design  housing  homes  nola  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
wohnlabor
housing  art  architecture  design  berlin  germany  via:cervus  yearoff  glvo  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Stan Cohen - Diary: The gradual anarchist | New Humanist
"late 60s…heady years for libertarian left…new generation of radicals had gone through rapid education that skipped orthodox Marxism & traditional anarchism, plunging straight into dialectics of liberation, Fanonism, International Situationism & more. Under this influence group of us…had begun to question assumptions & boundaries of our academic discipline…looked for links to anarchist tradition &…flirted w/ late 19th-century idea of criminal as crypto-revolutionary hero.<br />
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What attracted us to anarchism?…3 obvious affinities:…distrust of all authority…undermining of professional power (Illich-style de-schooling, anti-psychiatry…critique of state, especially its power to criminalise & punish.<br />
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These standard anarchist concerns always informed Colin’s agenda…had little time for “apocalyptic” or “insurrectionary” anarchism. His approach was pragmatic, gradualist, even reformist…His anarchism was not a glorification of chaos & disorder but encouragement of special form of order…"
politics  activism  anarchism  obituary  colinward  situationist  marxism  pragmatism  1960s  2010  hierarchy  creativity  individuality  socialspaces  architecture  criminology  insurrection  apocalypse  chaos  disorder  deschooling  ivanillich  anti-psychiatry  criminalization  behavior  society  fanonism  liberation  freedom  cities  urban  urbanism  defensiblespaces  space  place  housing  state  pruitt-igoe  stlouis  hopefulness  patience  insecurity  victimization  crime  housingprojects  oscarnewman  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Jay Shafer: The Politics of Tiny Houses
"In February, 2011, we spent a couple of hours with Jay Shafer (Tumbleweed Tiny House Company), in his 96 square foot house-on-wheels in Sebastopol, California. Jay is one of the more well-known and successful tiny house designers, and there’s no denying the “curb appeal” of his designs. That appeal is generated by Jay’s careful attention to proportion as well as by his decisions about which elements to include in–and more precisely, what to leave out of—his designs. But as much as he enjoys talking about design, what he really wanted to talk about was the politics of tiny houses. Why building and zoning codes are stacked against tiny houses, how the costs of purchase and upkeep compare to the big houses he calls “debtors’ prisons”, and why, when the Big One shakes the land around San Francisco Bay, he’d rather be in his tiny house than anywhere else."
tinyhouses  houses  housing  politics  jayshafer  homes  via:leighblackall  sanfrancisco  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
The Great American Bubble Machine | Rolling Stone Politics
"From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression -- and they're about to do it again"<br />
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"The new carbon credit market is a virtual repeat of the commodities-market casino that's been kind to Goldman, except it has one delicious new wrinkle: If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise in prices will be government-mandated. Goldman won't even have to rig the game. It will be rigged in advance."
carboncredits  carbon  carbonoffsets  goldmansachs  matttaibbi  2011  bubbles  finance  tarp  bailout  markets  manipulation  greatdepression  dotcomboom  technology  housingbubble  housing  energy  oil  gasoline  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Squatters on the Skyline - Video Library - The New York Times
"Facing a mounting housing shortage, squatters have transformed an abandoned skyscraper in downtown Caracas into a makeshift home for more than 2,500 people."
squatters  squatting  venezuela  caracas  skyscrapers  favelas  diy  housing  homes  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Rahm Emanuel's Task: The Reinvention of the Great American City - James Warren - Politics - The Atlantic
"Now, however, cities and states are troubled, with some on the verge of insolvency. There are predictions of defaults and bankruptcies amid staggering financial woes, with anger spreading vividly in Madison and Indianapolis, and more surely to come.<br />
Chicago, too, has a huge budget deficit, an awful pension situation, a woefully inconsistent school system, high crime, persistent segregation and a declining mass transit system in need of capital investments. It thus offers a laboratory for dealing with all the great issues facing the country: education, housing, transit, infrastructure, jobs and health care."
rahmemanuel  2011  chicago  cities  laboratories  urban  urbanism  schools  crisis  transit  masstransit  crime  segregation  education  housing  infrastructure  health  healthcare  pensions  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
California Bungalow - Wikipedia
"traces its origins to Indian province of Bengal, word itself derived from Hindi bangla or house in Bengali style. The native thatched roof huts were adapted by British, who built bungalows as houses for administrators and as summer retreats. Refined & popularized in California, many books list the first California house dubbed a bungalow as the one designed by the San Francisco architect A. Page Brown in the early 1890s. However, Brown's close friend, Joseph Worcester, designed a bungalow for himself & erected it atop a hill in Piedmont, across the bay from San Francisco, in 1877-78. The bungalow influenced Bernard Maybeck, Willis Polk & other San Francisco architects & Jack London, who rented Worcester's house from 1902-03 called it a "bungalow w/ a capital 'B'".<br />
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The bungalow became popular because it met the needs of changing times in which the lower middle class were moving from apartments to private houses in great numbers. Bungalows were modest, inexpensive & low-profile."
architecture  suburbia  bungalows  history  india  bengal  losangeles  sandiego  california  housing  homes  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey - NYTimes.com
"Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. Because these figures are based on samples, they are subject to a margin of error, particularly in places with a low population, and are best regarded as estimates."
maps  visualization  census  data  statistics  us  race  income  housing  families  education  classideas  2010  diversity  nytimes  ethnicity  demographics  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
David Galbraith’s Blog » How to Solve Berlin’s Gentrification War.
"Berlin’s slow-burn emergence as Europe’s cultural capital has resulted in a deep rooted creative scene, but that is being threatened. Berlin’s artists are now rebelling against a Yuppy invasion.<br />
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One of the problems with gentrification is that the people that originally make an area more desirable (artists) don’t gain and the people that gain (yuppies), often make it less desirable. The reason for this is that creatives rent and can’t buy, and yuppies buy but don’t create.<br />
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But imagine a property fund that was based on a simple rule - follow the artists, it would make a fortune. It should be possible then to fund the arts through some mechanism that capitalizes on this.<br />
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An arts fund that created artists mortgages with the expectation that they increase the value of properties without normally benefiting (as happened in Shoreditch) could really help mitigate this kind of change, without any external subsidy…"
davidgalbraith  berlin  art  artists  realestate  housing  renting  gentrification  yuppies  money  finance  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Alex Payne — Settling Down Without Settling
"About six months ago, in May, my wife and I moved from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon. We expected to rent an apartment in Portland for at least a year, maybe two. Yesterday, in a major diversion from that path, we closed on our first home. We move in this coming Saturday.

In this post, I’m going to talk about why we bought a home, how we went about it, and the context of the particular socioeconomic moment we find ourselves in."

"There’s a simplicity that comes from transience, and a simplicity that comes from permanence. Both are illusions, and one will present itself before the other. For now, I’m eager to be wrapped up in the illusion of permanence, serene and arboreal."
homebuying  tips  money  portland  housing  finance  transience  simplicity  illusion  houses  alexpayne  2010  permanence  neo-nomads  nomads  lifestyle  silence  quiet  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth – a Documentary
"It began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble. But what happened to those caught in between?<br />
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.<br />
At the film’s historical center is an analysis of the massive impact of the national urban renewal program of the 1950s and 1960s, which prompted the process of mass suburbanization and emptied American cities of their residents, businesses, and industries.<br />
Those left behind in the city faced a destitute, rapidly de-industrializing St. Louis , parceled out to downtown interests and increasingly segregated by class and race."
documentary  architecture  housing  publichousing  urban  urbanism  urbanplanning  history  stlouis  pruitt-igoe  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Columbia: Spatial Information Design Lab: Million Dollar Blocks
"US currently has 2 million+ people locked up in jails & prisons…disproportionate number come from very few neighborhoods in country’s biggest cities. In many places concentration is so dense that states are spending in million dollars + a year to incarcerate residents of single city blocks. When these people are released & reenter their communities, roughly 40% do not stay more than 3 years before they are reincarcerated.

Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, SIDL & Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these “million dollar blocks” & of city-prison-city-prison migration flow for 5 of nation’s cities. The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities & public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure—education, housing, health, & family. Prisons & jails form distant exostructure of many American cities today.
visualization  mapping  maps  activism  crime  spatialinformationdesignlab  infrastructure  exostructure  prisons  poverty  perpetuation  education  housing  health  prisonindustrialcomplex  communities  cities  urban  urbanism  research  laurakurgan  justice  justicemappingcenter  nyc  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Buy vs. Rent: An Update - NYTimes.com
"Below is an updated list of rent ratios — the price of a typical home divided by the annual cost of renting that home — for 55 metropolitan areas across the country.<br />
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We last covered this subject about eight months ago, and you’ll notice that most ratios have not changed much since then. A good rule of thumb is that you should often buy when the ratio is below 15 and rent when the ratio is above 20. If it’s between 15 and 20, lean toward renting — unless you find a home you really like and expect to stay there for many years."
money  rent  economics  finance  renting  homes  housing  2010  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
egg shaped mobile home
"undoubtedly one of the most interesting project getting featured on the world wide web, the egg-shaped mobile home by twenty-four year old dai haifei is a response to beijing's soaring rental prices. haifie, a recent architecture school graduate, has designed and lived in this temporary unit for the last two months.

the 'egg', measuring six feet in height sits on two wheels and is constructed from basket woven bamboo splints. the exterior features a patchwork of small sacks containing seeds of grass that will grow to eventually provide insulation. a south facing solar panel 'provides' power to a single lamp on the inside. during the day, natural daylight enters through an opening in the ceiling. the entrance can be propped open to facilitate natural ventilation.

given the small size and simple shape, the layout is minimal: a half circumference bed and low, built in storage line the perimeter, making the space efficient for bare living. "
design  architecture  mobile  mobility  neo-nomads  nomads  realestate  china  housing  homes  minimalism  small  tinyhomes  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Lifework - Herman Miller ["Ideal Live/Work Space: Architects Tim Durfee and Iris Anna Regn"]
"In our future house we hope to build on this small example of telescoping space: where the different parts are simultaneously visible, welcoming different modes of living.<br />
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Iris: I have always admired the way Marguerite Duras worked – stolen spaces in her living room, or in a simple sunny nook. Having work areas in various locations of the house, somewhat defined (by Duras as stacks of books and ashtrays), allows for the different functions and humors.<br />
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Duras writes: “There are houses that are too well made, too well thought out, completely without surprises, devised in advance by experts. By surprise I mean the unpredictable element produced by the way a house is used…” (Practicalities: Marguerite Duras Speaks to Jerome Beaujour, Grove/Atlantic, Inc, 1993)"
timdurfee  irisannaregn  broodwork  homes  glvo  work  space  margueriteduras  housing  design  predictablity  unpredictability  architecture  environmentaldesign  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Are we better off renting? | Money | The Observer
"For generations, we've aspired to be home owners. But evidence shows we'd be better off renting – both individually and as a nation. In Germany and Sweden, the rental market is credited with making people wealthier and happier, and with creating more attractive cities. So, is it time to sell up?"
via:cityofsound  renting  housing  homes  money  finance  happiness  sweden  germany  wealth  economics  incentives  society  socialstigmas  uk  us  switzerland  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Lloyd’s Blog
"Lloyd Kahn is the editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications, an independent California publisher. Shelter Publications specializes in books on building and architecture, as well as health and fitness. Lloyd’s latest book is Builders of the Pacific Coast."
lloydkahn  building  homes  housing  houses  tinyhomes  self-sufficiency  energy-efficiency  architecture  blogs  books  environment  sustainability  shelter  recycling  design  glvo  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
SHELTER on Vimeo
"Lloyd Kahn claims that shelter is more than a roof over your head. As the author and publisher of over a dozen books on home construction, Lloyd has been grappling with the concept of home, physically and psychically, for over five decades. Situated in the financial and housing crisis, this film profiles Lloyd's ideas on do-it-yourself construction and sustainability."
architecture  diy  houses  happiness  handmade  construction  design  documentary  building  community  craft  housing  glvo  lloydkahn  geodesicdomes  counterculture  shelter  sustainability  reuse  jasonsussberg  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
JUST CHANGE « LEBBEUS WOODS
"At a certain point, the only attainable goal is to live within the state of change itself, like refugees, gypsies, or nomads. It seems likely that in the future, if the pace of change—social, political, economic, cultural—continues to increase, this condition will become common in all social classes.<br />
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In such a world, the design and construction of permanent buildings will become less important than it is today, and architects will turn their attention to the development of concepts and techniques of building temporary living spaces. At their most primitive, these will involve portable structures such as tents. With increasing sophistication they will involve site-specific constructions that are created and, just as importantly, disappear as needed or desired."
temporary  lebbeuswoods  architecture  design  change  future  housing  life  neo-nomads  nomads  flux  culture  society  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Is the Digital Age Changing Our Desire to Drive? » INFRASTRUCTURIST
"The citation is an article from Advertising Age about the diminished importance of the automobile in the digital age. The piece points out that in 1995 people age 21 to 30 accounted for roughly 21 percent of automobile-miles driven in the United States. By 2001 that figure had dipped to 18 percent, and in 2009 it had fallen below 14 percent. All this while the proportion of people in this age group actually increased.<br />
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The reason for this change, according to some experts, is that technology is doing for today’s generation what the car did for previous ones—namely, providing a sense of freedom. For one thing, the Internet has made telecommuting more common."
transportation  transit  urbanism  housing  driving  demographics  workflow  infrastructure  cars  technology  trends  mobility  telecommuting  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Un Techo para mi País
"MISIÓN: Mejorar la calidad de vida de las familias que viven en situación de pobreza a través de la construcción de viviendas de emergencia y la ejecución de planes de habilitación social, en un trabajo conjunto entre jóvenes voluntarios universitarios y estas comunidades. Queremos denunciar la realidad de los asentamientos precarios en que viven millones de personas en Latinoamérica e involucrar a la sociedad en su conjunto, logrando que se comprometa con la tarea de construir un continente más solidario, justo y sin exclusión."
activism  architecture  argentina  chile  haiti  perú  bolivia  brasil  latinamerica  colombia  costarica  ecuador  elsalvador  guatemala  honduras  mexico  nicaragua  panamá  paraguay  dominicanrepublic  uruguay  social  housing  volunteerism  glvo  yearoff  charity  community  untechoparamipaís  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Global house prices: Clicks and mortar | The Economist
"The Economist has been publishing data on global house prices since 2002. The interactive tool above enables you to compare nominal and real house prices across 20 markets over time. And to get a sense of whether buying a property is becoming more or less affordable, you can also look at the changing relationships between house prices and rents, and between house prices and incomes."
housing  economics  data  us  uk  japan  international  prices  2010  property  via:cityofsound  housingbubble  graphs  statistics  charts  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Vacation rentals, private rooms, sublets by the night - Accommodations on Airbnb
"Called the "Ebay for space"…online marketplace allowing anyone from private residents to commercial properties to rent out extra space. The reputation-based site allows for user reviews, verification, & secure online transactions. Listings include vacation rentals, private rooms, entire apartments, bed & breakfasts, boutique hotels, castles, treehouses, & many other traditional & non-traditional accommodations.<br />
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The open platform allows users to post listings of their space. Prospective travelers can search by city or country, utilizing filters such as price & room type…Travelers contact hosts directly through the web site, which includes user profiles & friend recommendations. Dates are confirmed through on-site messaging, & the traveler books directly online using their credit card or PayPal account. Hosts receive a reservation request which they can accept or decline. Both parties then receive an itinerary on accepted reservations, & are set to go."
airbnb  housing  hotels  couchsurfing  travel  budget  apartments  alternative  b&b  accommodations  network  vacation  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Careful Lending Benefits Canada's Housing Market : NPR
"Canadians bankers are often characterized as stodgy, and they were more careful about lending money. Cameron Muir, of the British Columbia Real Estate Association, adds: They didnt encourage unqualified buyers to jump into the market. [Makes sense.] … Canadians generally put more money down than their U.S. peers, and there is no tax break for mortgage interest. Moreover, says Muir, buyers who put 20 percent or less down have to get mortgage insurance, and the government sets the criteria for borrowers. [Still making sense.] … Whats more, many Asians are investing in Canadian real estate, and that too has helped the country's real estate market continue to hum. [Oh, but that last line makes me think speculation.]"
canada  vancouver  britishcolumbia  housing  markets  2010  housingbubble  money  finance  policy  speculation  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Housing in Ten Words « The Baseline Scenario
"Housing is generally a worse investment than either stocks or simple U.S. Treasury bonds. Then why do so many people think it’s such a great investment?" [via: http://bettyann.tumblr.com/post/1003282676]
economy  economics  finance  housing  investment  us  markets  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Can "Massive Personalization" Rebuild Quake-Devastated Chile? | Co.Design
"Chilean architect Emilio Marin has an idea that could restore housing better and faster.<br />
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Marin proposes throwing up prefab units that can be stretched, pulled, tweaked, and grouped according to residents’ desires. A notch above mass-produced disaster shelters (see: FEMA trailers), but more homogeneous than customized single-family homes (see here), the houses offer what Marin calls “massive personalization.” You can specify 400-square-foot buildings with standard pitched roofs or triple-roof buildings that are three times as big. (You can also turn them into community centers or more complex structures.) “We believe that qualitative values in architectonic solutions like spatial quality, quality of life, space and cubic meters cannot be reserved only for the elites,” Marin says. Cutting through the archispeak, the suggestion is that both rich and poor should get to determine the parameters of where they live -- quickly and relative to the size of their pocketbooks."
emiliomarin  chil  architecture  prefab  adaptability  flexibility  housing  homes  earthquakes  2010  emiliomarín  chile  personalization  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Young, urban professional seeks home – vacant premises will do - Home News, UK - The Independent
"The number of people living in squats in England and Wales has risen by 25 per cent in the last seven years, according to new figures. But contrary to popular belief, greater numbers of squatters are now professional, middle class and upwardly mobile."
via:regine  squatting  squatters  property  trends  money  uk  gapyear  housing  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Historical Census of Housing Tables - Home Values
"Median home values adjusted for inflation nearly quadrupled over the 60-year period since the first housing census in 1940. The median value of single-family homes in the United States rose from $30,600 in 1940 to $119,600 in 2000, after adjusting for inflation (see graph). Median home value increased in each decade of this 60-year period, rising fastest (43 percent) in the 1970s and slowest (8.2 percent) in the 1980s. Both home values adjusted and unadjusted for inflation are presented. These values refer to owner-occupied single-family housing units on less than 10 acres without a business or medical office on the property."
housing  bubble  census  data  economics  realestate  money  prices  statistics  us  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Abogo Transportation Cost
"Abogo is a tool that lets you discover how transportation impacts the affordability and sustainability of where you live." [via: http://www.good.is/post/is-your-neighborhood-transportation-smart/]
economics  housing  transportation  transit  maps  mapping  comparison  sustainability  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Shareable: The Slow Homes Manifesto (Part Two) [Part One here: http://shareable.net/blog/the-slow-homes-manifesto-part-one]
"I propose six goals for the slow homes movement:<br />
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1. Create housing that facilitates interaction, community, and sharing<br />
2. Make our homes part of a sustainable ecosystem and encourage residents to cook, eat, sleep, work, consume, and live more sustainably<br />
3. Build homes that are efficient, adaptable, and co-created by the people that live in them<br />
4. Provide comfortable, secure, healthy, and beautiful environments for residents<br />
5. Redesign our housing market and industry to ensure fairness and access<br />
6. Rethink city planning, zoning, and legal structures to facilitate our transition into slow homes and slow communities."
slow  homes  housing  design  architecture  community  sustainability  slowhomes  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Future Perfect » 10 Tips for International Relocation [The whole list & comments are worth the read. Some of the items above contain further details.]
"China is now the fifth country I’ll feel comfortable calling home...each time the process of relocating has become a little easier. Whilst each of the moves was under very different circumstances, life stages the following tips picked up on the way might help smooth your next relocation:<br />
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1. You don’t need a job or apartment lined up to make the leap. Sure it might mean sofa-surfing or taking career diversions – these are the tangents that reveal & shape the new you.<br />
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2. International relocation is the ultimate excuse to have a brutal clear-out...<br />
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3. Heart first, then wallet: first figure out where you want to go, the logistics & money to make it happen will stretch & contract to your budget.<br />
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4. Never apply for a single entry visa when multiple entry is an option. Any additional cost is easily outweighed by the flexibility it provides...<br />
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6. Keep a digital scan of all your important documents...<br />
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7. Backup your most important stuff to the cloud..."
janchipchase  international  howto  housing  moving  global  life  jobs  work  travel  tips  relocation  yearoff  cv  migration  logistics  advice  glvo  documents  dropbox  amazons3  s3  transmit  banking  shipping  purging  travellight  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
shanghai imports european cities, finds them lacking
"It didn’t quite work out this way. “It’s a big failure,” says Harry den Hartog, urban planner and author of the forthcoming book Shanghai New Towns: Searching for Community and Identity in a Sprawling Metropolis. “They found out that this thematic architecture didn’t bring the success that they wanted.” Because many of the new developments were far from the city’s business centers and inadequately linked to public transportation, the successful businesspeople they were meant to house have largely stayed away. Shanghai’s highly inflated housing market (in which property can double in value in just one year) has also played a role—although houses in the new towns sold out quickly, the vast majority of buyers were speculators who simply let the houses sit empty while waiting to sell them off. Consequently, many of the new developments remain virtual ghost towns."
architecture  china  design  housing  shanghai  urban  urbanism 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Throwing Money Away (Buying vs Renting) | Messy Matters [To save myself the time when this topic comes up again]
"I’m tired of hearing people explain that paying rent is throwing money away. Of course, they don’t mean that literally. You’re getting something for that money (a place to live). But with a mortgage you’re building equity, right? Doesn’t that fundamentally make more sense than renting? No. “Building equity” just means turning some of your money into a house. That’s one of many ways you could invest your money.
bubble  economics  finance  housing  investing  realestate  rent  renting  rentersrights  money  nyc  investments  investment  homebuying  via:robinsloan 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Blueprints for a Better ‘Burb - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
"[The] prevailing vision contradicts the reality of suburbia today. There may be white picket fences & home owners associations in common, but beyond that, “suburb” has outlived its usefulness as a descriptive term — and as a model for future planning, at least in its current incarnation. Suburbs continue to be designed for homogeneity even though they’re no longer homogeneous at all, & in fact have become increasingly varied in type, density, infrastructure & demographics..."

[via: http://varnelis.net/blog/blueprints_for_a_better_burb ]
architecture  suburbia  suburbs  sustainability  transportation  traffic  urbanism  urban  planning  competitions  ecology  energy  environment  housing  systems  systemsthinking  kazysvarnelis  longisland 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Población callampa - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre [Used the callampa metaphor with Basti in a conversation today when talking about education futures and the idea of small laboratory schools or learning centers]
"Población callampa es la denominación que se le da en Chile a los asentamientos irregulares. La palabra callampa (sinónimo de seta), refleja la rapidez con la que se reproducían (de la noche a la mañana) estos sectores de infraviviendas en los años 1960, 70 y 80. Actualmente se les conoce también como campamentos y, según datos de la Fundación Un techo para Chile, quedaban 453 de dichos asentamientos con más de 8 familias, al año 2005."
chile  slums  poblaciónescallamas  informal  unplanned  infilling  organic  housing 
july 2010 by robertogreco
High School Homebuilders Get More Than An Education : NPR
"The sports teams at Forest Grove High School are called the Vikings. And every year, some students build what they call a "Viking house" in the surrounding neighborhood. It's a real house that the school sells to raise money...
handson  projectbasedlearning  homes  housing  construction  tcsnmy  classideas  via:lukeneff  forestgrove  oregon  practicalknowledge  senseofacheivement  actualtangibleresults  make  making  do  doing  fundraising  homebuilding  shop  carpentry 
july 2010 by robertogreco
New Visions of Home: Change Observer: Design Observer
"The world is tumbling over the precipice of a major demographic shift. By 2030, it is estimated that 25 percent of the developed world’s population will be over 65 — an unprecedented proportion in human history. A century ago, that number was a mere 3 percent. In the U.S., the population over 65 is expected to double to 71.5 million in the next 15 years. Investment firm T. Rowe Price now advises retirement savings until age 92. ...
aging  architecture  housing  europe  trends  us  design  retrofitting  cohousing  multigeneration  vertical  density  denmark  small  smallhomes  lifelonglearning  seniors  affordability  world  population  urban  urbanism  switzerland  portland  oregon  leed  designobserver  australia  uk 
july 2010 by robertogreco
When Less Was More - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
"The popularity of simpler living made it possible for one American developer, William Levitt, to realize the prewar dream of the European modern architects to use industrialization for housing. During the war, Levitt had become an expert in mass-producing homes for shipyard workers in Virginia. When it ended, Levitt and his sons created a prototype 750-square-foot, one-floor house—with a living room, kitchen/dining area, two small bedrooms, a bathroom and an unfinished “expansion attic”—to fit on a 60 x 100 foot lot. Set on concrete slabs like those at the shipyards, the new houses were built quickly and cheaply on a sort of assembly line, with pre-cut lumber and nails shipped from the Levitts’ factories in California...
houses  housing  modernism  architecture  design  levittown  consumption  consumerism  americandream  excess  homes  history 
july 2010 by robertogreco
the double room - portable home
"american firm global homes has sent in images of his project 'the doubleroom' in sweden. the portable residence consists of a kitchen, bathroom, living and bedroom space all in one. the pre assembled structure can be easily transported to any location."
architecture  design  homes  housing  neo-nomads  nomads  portability  prefab  small  tiny  mobility 
may 2010 by robertogreco
W+K12 Presents No Place Like Home [The boarding school of work environments?]
"In the 21st century, living is an art. Balancing home and work is just one aspect. We work to live; we live to work. The space in which that happens is ultimately changing. As houses evolve into workspaces, and workspaces become more hospitable to longer hours, we see the lines breaking down. Microwavable breakfastlunchdinner, office living rooms, wi-fi, cloud-computing, all are demanded evolutions of a space caught in crisis.
wk12  wk  worklive  livework  work  housing  homes  balance  workspace  noplacelikehome  coworking  coliving  space  place  identity  lcproject  community  learning  working  computing  experiments  wieden+kennedy 
may 2010 by robertogreco
'America Needs to Get Over Its House Passion' - National - The Atlantic
"But, a whole slew of recent research suggests that there are considerable costs as well as benefits to owning your home. A 1998 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas study, undertaken well before the boom and bubble, provided detailed empirical evidence of America's over-investment in housing. Yale University's Robert Shiller, the world's leading student of bubbles, housing, and otherwise, found that from "1890 to 1990, the rate of return on residential real estate was just about zero after inflation." Or as Nobel prize-winning Columbia University economist Edmund Phelps puts it: "It used to be that the business of America was business. Now the business of America is homeownership." He adds, "To recover and grow again, America needs to get over its 'house passion."' I delve into these issues in greater depth in The Great Reset."
richardflorida  homeownership  capitalism  housing  via:javierarbona  land  economics 
april 2010 by robertogreco
casa ti eco friendly Modern Prefab House Kit by David Day
"This is not green building for huge-home fashionista types.
architecture  green  housing  homes  prefab  modular  via:blackbeltjones 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Commuting : The Frontal Cortex
"David Brooks, summarizing the current state of happiness research: "The daily activity most injurious to happiness is commuting. According to one study, being married produces a psychic gain equivalent to more than $100,000 a year." In other words, the best way to make yourself happy is to have a short commute and get married. I'm afraid science can't tell us very much about marriage so let's talk about commuting. A few years ago, the Swiss economists Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer announced the discovery of a new human foible, which they called "the commuters paradox". They found that, when people are choosing where to live, they consistently underestimate the pain of a long commute. This leads people to mistakenly believe that the big house in the exurbs will make them happier, even though it might force them to drive an additional hour to work."
commuting  happiness  davidbrooks  housing  urbanplanning  suburbia  marriage  neuroscience  jonahlehrer  behavior  cars  driving  psychology  estimation  planning  urban  urbanism  transportation  traffic  suburbs  lifestyle  living  satisfaction 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Today We Collect Nothing | varnelis.net
"We will need at least a decade to absorb the excess housing currently in the market...Mobility will rise, but homes will become less the spaces of self-realization that they were...& more shells to be filled temporarily, with only a few, highly-intelligent objects in one's possession...Is this an end condition to architecture? Maybe. But when hasn't architecture been in an end condition?...But maybe there are other possibilities? It strikes me that architects are missing a major opportunity here. All of this is very similar to what the Eameses were up to when they moved away from construction to media. They built the best house of the century but architecture couldn't hold their attention. It was too slow. Instead, they turned to media. Today's media are more spatial than film ever could be. Hertzian space—and the interface to it—is the new frontier. Architects should be sure not miss out."
neo-nomads  nomads  mobility  modernism  eames  architecture  kazysvarnelis  housing  housingbubble  realestate  future  reynerbanham  stevejobs  postdisciplinary  design  glvo  cv  unschooling  deschooling  gamechanging  change 
march 2010 by robertogreco
HIGH HOUSES « LEBBEUS WOODS
"The High Houses are proposed as part of the reconstruction of Sarajevo after the siege of the city that lasted from 1992 though late 1995. Their site is the badly damaged “old tobacco factory” in the Marijn dvor section near the city center.
architecture  fiction  housing  urban  mobile  homes  sarajevo  reclamation  war  lebbeuswoods 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Prototipo Puertas – Vivienda de Emergencia / Cubo Arquitectos | Plataforma Arquitectura
"La idea base de este proyecto es mejorar las condiciones actuales de asistencia y confort habitacional de las Viviendas de Emergencia que se usan hoy en día.
housing  emergencies  chile  design  architecture 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Detroit homes sell for $1 amid mortgage and car industry crisis | Business | The Guardian
"The Americans we know got ripped off by the American dream. But [the renovation] is the most like moving out of the country that we can actually do. We're the minority in terms of ethnicity and this is a rich environment … there's 30% open space in the city and that doesn't include the buildings that should be torn down. You're in a city riding your bike around and you hear birds and stuff. It's incredible."
cities  crisis  culture  economics  urbanism  housing  detroit  revival  urban 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Design For The Displaced: Using Textiles To Create A Home - Core77
The Displaced Project by Raneen Nosh, of Citizen Designer, questions the emotional impact of displacement and explores the meaning of home for those who have been affected by damaging events such as natural disasters or political conflict. Nosh, a recent graduate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, created a textile-based object that is "designed to suit the nomadic needs of a displaced person, while also serving to recreate a sense of domestic comfort to preserve personal and cultural memory."
neo-nomads  nomads  textiles  clothing  wearable  shelter  housing  design 
february 2010 by robertogreco
American Vintage House Styles - A brief history of middle-class American residential architecture from 1900 to 1960
"So many wonderful home styles evolved during the first half of the 20th century, it seems like a good idea to put them into some kind of context. This following is not intended to be comprehensive ... it's just an outline of the many styles and some of our thoughts about them."
homes  housing  us  history  20thcentury  architecture  design  modernism  craftsman  progressiveera  simplicitymovement  simplicity  trends  via:britta 
february 2010 by robertogreco
House Style Picture Dictionary - Pictures of House Styles and Residential Architecture
"What style is your house? Browse our photo gallery for the most popular housing styles in North America. Click on the pictures below for larger images along with facts, diagrams, building plans, and other helpful resources. For more houses, also see our House Style Guide."
via:britta  architecture  homes  housing  history 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Los Angeles News - Living off the Grid - page 1
"You've seen them. Maybe one has even parked on your street: a conversion van, curtains drawn, or a camper with signs of everyday life. They are so ubiquitous in Venice that some locals have been trying to turn the onetime hippie enclave into a parking-permit-only town as a way to ward off these "undesirables." Who are these people who can live in a van? Some have made the choice to downsize their lives, not wanting to live conventionally or pay rent, and some have been forced to scale back their lives due to losing their job or their home. Either way, it takes a certain kind of person to give up the trappings most of us have become so accustomed to. Living in a van is not just a lifestyle but a state of mind. Many thousands in L.A. are living in their vehicles or in tents or some other temporary shelter. Four of their stories follow."
losangeles  vans  cars  homes  housing  nomads  neo-nomads  homelessness 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Beijing University Graduates’ Miserable Living Conditions | chinaSMACK
""Ant people” is a description of the university graduates living in the “village in the middle of a city” ["城中村" = ghetto?]. In China, with Beijing’s Tangjiashan Village being the most representative, in this small village that can be run around in less than an hour, there live at least around 100,000 recent graduates, and the majority here are university students. I myself am a member of this group.
beijing  china  education  housing  society  colleges  universities 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier | Newgeography.com
"troubles of Detroit are well-publicized...economy in free fall, people streaming for the exits, worst racial polarization & city-suburb divide in America, its government is feckless & corrupt, & its civic boosters, even ones that are extremely knowledgeable, refuse to acknowledge the depth of the problems, instead ginning up stats & anecdotes to prove all is not so bad. But as with Youngstown, one thing this massive failure has made possible is ability to come up with radical ideas for the city, & potentially to even implement some of them. Places like Flint & Youngstown might be attracting new ideas & moving forward, but it is big cities that inspire the big, audacious dreams. & that is Detroit. Its size, scale, & powerful brand image are attracting not just the region’s but the world’s attention. It may just be that some of the most important urban innovations in 21st century America end up coming not from Portland or New York, but places like Youngstown &, yes, Detroit."
detroit  cities  economics  food  urban  urbanism  farming  future  optimism  urbanprairie  gamechanging  housing  michigan  urbanplanning  geography  agriculture  innovation  architecture  change  futurism  environment  sustainability  urbanagriculture  planning  research  parks  reconstruction  glvo 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Strategic defaults – conditioning, morality, or naïveté? | The Big Picture
"To this point, we have lived in a country where the “What’s my monthly payment?” culture has thrived, but that seems to be changing and the question that more and more underwater homeowners are now asking is, “If banks can walk away from their obligations, why can’t I?”
mortgages  banking  foreclosures  defaults  housing  markets  morality  2009  doublestandards 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Matt Hern » Blog Archive » WALKING AWAY UNDERWATER
"intrigued by the story originating in the LA Times that got wide play this we. Brent White, a University of Arizona law school professor, authored a study that urges ‘underwater’ homeowners (those who owe more than their house is worth) to just walk away from the house and cut their losses ... So aside from the tsunami of social and economic repercussions if half of homeowners are in a position where abandoning their homes is the smart thing to do, another thought came to mind. What happens when the US deficit crosses the 100% threshold of GDP? ... Homeower debt. Credit card debt. National debt. Ecological debt. All of it relies implicitly and explicitly on mythologies of endless growth. Sooner, rather than later, or maybe now, the insanity of it comes clear and people rightly just walk away from the house.
debt  economics  crisis  us  policy  deficit  housing  homes  mortgages  foreclosures 
december 2009 by robertogreco
KEG apartment - a set on Flickr
architecture  design  housing  homes  keg 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)
"Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. We are dedicated to informing and improving public policy in California through independent, objective, nonpartisan research.
california  policy  politics  economics  business  research  statistics  housing  health  government  poverty  immigration  reference  education  environment  information  public  thinktank  publicpolicy  demographics  via:javierarbona 
november 2009 by robertogreco
elemental by alejandro aravena / casa per tutti at milan triennale
architecture  housing  chile  elementalchile  alejandroaravena  design 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Alejandro Aravena | ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE
"Elemental, has to be one of the most unusual in the world: equal partnership between an architect, an oil company & a university...a "do tank", but not for a lack of thinking...Its ethos is to implement what it can, whatever the circumstances - & the circumstances of housing the poor in Latin American cities are pretty onerous...In 2003 Aravena was asked to house 100 families in Iquique...w/ just $7,500 per family in government subsidies to buy land & build houses..."Let's do the half that the family would never be able to do on its own." Namely, the structure, roof, kitchen & bathroom...one of a group of architects, including Venezuelan Urban Think Tank & San Diego-based Teddy Cruz, who are the conscience of their profession...Today, Chile is producing the most interesting architects in South America. Yet, without diminishing the formal & material inventiveness of compatriots such as Smiljan Radic & Matthias Klotz, the country has been a different kind of crucible for Aravena."
alejandroaravena  elementalchile  chile  architecture  activism  doing  latinamerica  housing  design  teddycruz  urbanthinktank  smiljanradic  mathiasklotz  scarcity 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Política Stereo: Política Habitacional: De clientes pasivos a socios activos on Vimeo
elementalchile  alejandroaravena  chile  design  activism  politics  housing 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Documental del Proyecto Quinta Monroy en Iquique, Chile on Vimeo
quintamonroy  alejandroaravena  chile  iquique  housing  architecture  design  documentary  elementalchile 
november 2009 by robertogreco
waterwall tanks
"rainwater reservoirs are nothing new, but the waterwall fatboy manages to hold 650 gallons of water in
homes  housing  design  materials  water  function  storage 
november 2009 by robertogreco
dass: tree house hotel
"the tree house hotel designed by dass is a small hideout in nature - a microspace placed
housing  treehouses  trees  wood  homes  architecture  design  small  smallhomes 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Slow Home
"Slow Home was launched in fall 2006 from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Our goal is simple: to help people learn about the principles of good residential design and how to apply them in a variety of real world situations. We provide the basic knowledge and skills necessary for people to become more informed residential consumers and empower them to make smarter choices about where and how they live."
blogs  homes  design  architecture  slow  cities  green  housing  urbanism  longnow  sustainability  realestate  environment  lifestyle 
october 2009 by robertogreco
ZEROW HOUSE: Rice Solar Decathlon Home Page
"The ZEROW HOUSE is a 520 square foot zero energy home designed for the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon by students from Rice University. The house is run completely off of solar power generated on site, through the use of a photovoltaic array and solar hot water system that collects solar energy. The ZEROW HOUSE is not only technologically innovative, it is also affordable, demonstrating that solar power is viable and that zero energy houses can be an attainable goal for many." [via: http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=13115]
rice  homes  housing  solar  energy  technology  zeroenergy  solarpower  sustainability 
october 2009 by robertogreco
8H - The 8-House on Vimeo
"8-House is located in Ørestad on the edge of Copenhagen. 8-House offers homes for people in all of life’s stages: the young and the old, singles, families that grow and families that become smaller. Instead of dividing the different functions of the building - for both habitation and retail - into separate blocks, the various functions have been spread out horizontally. The apartments are placed at the top while the commercial program unfolds at the base of the building. As a result, the different horizontal layers have achieved a quality of their own: the apartments benefit from the view, sunlight and fresh air, while the commercial merges with life on the street."
architecture  design  housing  denmark  copenhagen  big  mixed-use  bjarkeingels 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Fighting Gentrification With Money In Houston : NPR
"Redefining Houston's Third Ward: State Rep. Garnet Coleman's district is full of history — but he wants to protect its future."
houston  thirdward  housing  gentrification  cities 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Pasadena Weekly - Separate and unequal - Nowhere in California is the gap between rich and poor greater than in Pasadena
"In many respects, Pasadena is a tale of two cities, and gentrification is exacerbating the gap between rich and poor. Pasadena's median household income increased from $51,233 in 2005 to $59,301 in 2006 -- a dramatic 15.7 percent boost in just one year. But this jump in income is not because Pasadena's existing residents got big pay raises from generous employers. It is because the people moving to Pasadena are increasingly those with high incomes, while those with low incomes are being pushed out of the city. In other words, the city's prosperity is not being widely shared, but pitting the affluent against the poor and working class for the city's scarce housing."
pasadena  2007  pasadenaweekly  wealth  gentrification  inequality  disparity  incomes  housing 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Caravan - The Free Sublet and House Swap site for Creative Folk Only
"Caravan is a house swap and short term sublet listing for commercial creatives and those working in the advertising/media/fashion/art and design industries. If you're a photographer, illustrator, art director, film director, practicing artist, stylist, designer, make up artist, DOP, producer (shall I go on?) this listing is for you. If you travel internationally for work, marketing, relocation, or just curiosity, and you're feeling the GFC pinch, read on!" [via: http://www.good.is/post/look-short-term-shelter-for-artists/]
travel  housing  apartments  rent  couchsurfing  houseswap  glvo  temporary 
july 2009 by robertogreco
ReBurbia
"In a future where limited natural resources will force us to find better solutions for density and efficiency, what will become of the cul-de-sacs, cookie-cutter tract houses and generic strip malls that have long upheld the diffuse infrastructure of suburbia? How can we redirect these existing spaces to promote sustainability, walkability, and community? It’s a problem that demands a visionary design solution and we want you to create the vision! ... Show us how you would re-invent the suburbs! What would a McMansion become if it weren’t a single-family dwelling? How could a vacant big box store be retrofitted for agriculture? What sort of design solutions can you come up with to facilitate car-free mobility, ‘burb-grown food, and local, renewable energy generation? We want to see how you’d design future-proof spaces and systems using the suburban structures of the present, from small-scale retrofits to large-scale restoration—the wilder the better!"
design  architecture  urban  suburban  redevelopment  capitalism  suburbia  planning  bldgblog  suburbs  urbanplanning  meltdown  landscape  competition  infrastructure  housing  cities  competitions  dwell  contests 
july 2009 by robertogreco
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