Tag: Housing Industry - Page 3
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Quote of the Day: Newt Gingrich On Urbanity
Do Americans really still believe this after what they have been through in the last five years? This man is completely deluded.
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How To Build a Resilient Design: Make it Smaller, Higher, Stronger and Warmer
Alex Wilson at BuildingGreen explains how resilient building is really green building. In great detail.
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The Week in Pictures: Paris' High Line, Eco Travel Destinations, and More
It turns out Paris has its own elevated railway park, and it's been around since 1993. We also have the best eco travel destinations for 2012, a floating home for urban animals, and more.
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Engineer Modernizes The Traditional Cruck Frame With Modern Framing and Straw Bale
Mixing The Best of Modern Materials With Traditional Form
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"There Goes the Neighborhood." Two Ways to Deal with Foreclosed Homes
While some cities are tearing down thousands of vacant homes, Occupy Our Homes movement offers a compassionate alternative.
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Win a Chance to Stay in London Rooftop Boat Hotel With Innovative Ideas
One-room hotel A Room for London, available during the 2012 Olympics, has awarded a proposal tackling homelessness, among others.
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Prefab Proposal For New York City Lives Again
An incremental step to taller, multifamily prefab: Eight stories of stacked boxes by Peter Gluck and Partners
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Builder Magazine's Top Design Trends Of 2011 Could Have Been TreeHugger's
The economy and the green movement are beginning to take green design ideas mainstream.
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'Occupy Our Homes' Moves Homeless Families into Vacant, Foreclosed Houses (Video)
This offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement reveals the injustice--and striking inefficiency--of a system that kicks the poor to the streets and boards up perfectly good houses.
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Green Building Is The Key To Rebooting The Economy
It's a no-brainer: Construction is the job creation engine in America
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The Week in Pictures: Underground Skyscrapers, Landmines Conserving Land, and More
Are underground "earthscrapers" the future of green building? We also have landmines as tools of preservation, bacteria-powered lighting, and more.
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Panellized Prefab Houses Framed in Two days
There's more than one way to prefab a house; here is a system that improves quality and speed.
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What Caused The Real Estate Meltdown? The Collapse Of The Suburban Fringe
Christopher Leinberger makes the case that demographics caused the meltdown; nobody wants to live in the 'burbs anymore
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Goodbye McMansions, Hello Big Boxes: American Houses Are Growing Again
They are big, they are cheap, they are ugly. And they are selling, for all the wrong reasons.
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Students Occupy Monster Homes In Merced, California
The housing market is so bad that it is cheaper to rent a McMansion than it is to go into residence.
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The latest trend among the 1%: Generator Envy
Home theatres and wine grottos are so 2007; the latest trend is the home generator. Next: Gun turrets.
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Vision of the City of the Future From 1950 Is Not That Far Off From the Reality of the Present
Men are still at the office and women are still in the kitchen, but what a kitchen it is, with melting plates and instant food.
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Shopping Malls Changing or Closing Because "The World Is Awash In Stuff"
Former shopping malls are being converted to other uses or even demolished and replaced with housing. It's about time.
