Archive for Housing
May 14, 2010 · Filed under Authenticity, Big Box, Housing, Master Planning, Real Estate, Shopping Malls
Imagine living in a Tesco house, sending your child to a Tesco school, swimming in a Tesco pool and, of course, shopping at the local Tesco superstore. According to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe), the government’s adviser on architecture and design, this collective monopoly is not an imaginary dystopia. “Tesco Towns” on this model are already being planned across the UK, from Inverness in Scotland to Seaton in Devon.
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May 14, 2010 · Filed under Children, Diversity, Families, Grassroots, Happiness, Housing, Resilience, Social Networks
Imagine a community where you like your neighbours. You share meals and your children grow up together.
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April 27, 2010 · Filed under Architecture, Density, Housing, Urban Design
There is no question that sustainable land use requires, among other things, neighborhood density. Smart growth based on walkable neighborhoods, transportation choices, nearby amenities and the accommodation of an increasingly diverse society is the only way we can limit per-capita impacts, and thus total impacts, to a manageable level.
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February 4, 2010 · Filed under Creative Cities, Diversity, Gentrification, Grassroots, Homelessness, Housing, Public Space, Real Estate, Shelter, Social Justice
Hamburg has been trying to woo the much-coveted “creative class” for years in a bid to secure its future. Now the city has become the front line in a bitter conflict over gentrification, with artists squatting buildings in protest against investment plans and members of the far-left scene attacking private property — and even police.
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February 4, 2010 · Filed under Architecture, Density, Happiness, Housing, Shelter
For Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas, home is a cubicle barely bigger than a coffin — one of dozens of berths stacked two units high in one of central Tokyo’s decrepit “capsule” hotels.
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January 12, 2010 · Filed under Cities from Scratch, Grassroots, Homelessness, Housing, Nature, Social Justice
A crusading minister has built a forested Utopia for the itinerant and destitute. But is a social experiment what they’re looking for, or just a place to live?
The camp looks something like the scene of an extended hunting trip, but it is in fact a homeless encampment—possibly the largest in the tri-state area, not that any governmental body has bothered to keep track. Some call it Cedar Bridge, after the nearest paved road.
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November 17, 2009 · Filed under Big Box, Housing, Mixed Use, Multi-Level Urbanism, Retail
Paul Buck has spectacular views of downtown Vancouver from the two glass walls of his condo, which wow everyone who walks in. But what really impressed one of Mr. Buck’s friends, in from a town near the Yukon border, is that he lives over a giant Home Depot.
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October 14, 2009 · Filed under Families, Happiness, Housing, Public Life, Social Networks
Fewer Americans are relocating than at any time since 1962. That’s good news for families, communities … and even the environment.
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October 1, 2009 · Filed under Architecture, Density, Diversity, Housing, Modernism, Urban Design, Urban Structure
Utopian modernism turned on its head in Caracas, where residents have made fifty-year-old superblock housing projects into the locus of sprawling improvised settlements.
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July 30, 2009 · Filed under Density, Diversity, Ecosystems, Families, Housing, Revitalization, Slums
Dharavi, at the heart of Mumbai megalopolis, recently became the iconic symbol of slums in Asia and in the world through its intrinsic permanence, multiplicity, dynamism, density and scale. Partially caused from the emergent glamour of informality and feticisation of poverty, and its strategic location in the modernisation of the city, Dharavi emerged as the last frontier of oppositional practices confronting neo-liberal mega-projects of urban redevelopment and thus symbol of a contested urbanism.
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