Residential Tuesday 2007.0710

Tue Jul 10 14:42:36 PDT 2007

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis every week in this free email newsletter from the editors of ArchitectureWeek. 

Back from our U.S. Independence Day break, we highlight continuing coverage of the flooding in northern England. 

Thousands of homes and other buildings have been affected, with hundreds of millions of dollars in estimated damage to date. Recovery efforts are just getting started.  And still more rain has been forecast.

	Poor Flood Defences Expand Insurance Blacklist - Telegraph, 2007.0710
	http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/10/nflood210.xml

	Overhaul of Flood Defenses Urged - BBC News, 2007.0709
	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6283660.stm

	Flooding Danger 'Not over Yet' - BBC News, 2007.0709
	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/6283414.stm

	Brown's £14m for Flood-Hit North 'Is Not Enough' - Daily Mail, 2007.0707
	http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=466948&in_page_id=1770

	Is It a Good Idea to Keep on Building on Floodplains? - BD Online, 2007.0706
	http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3090927&origin=BDweekly

	Lifeboats Patrol Streets as More Rain Is Forecast - The Times (London), 2007.0701
	http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article2010211.ece

	Bentley's Residents Try to Pick Up the Pieces after Floods - Independent Digital, 2007.0630
	http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2723239.ece

	Evacuations, Deaths as Storms Lash UK - The Times (New Zealand), 2007.0627
	http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=502656

Residential Design and Building News
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Housing Woes Hammer Home Depot - CNN, 2007.0710
http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/10/news/companies/home_depot/?postversion=2007071011

Five Killed as Plane Crashes into Florida Homes - Reuters, 2007.0710
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1035779320070710

New Orleans Residents Take Post-Katrina Rebuilding into Their Own Hands - MTV, 2007.0709
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1564358/20070709/id_0.jhtml

Australia's Home-Loan Approvals Probably Slowed as Costs Rose - Bloomberg, 2007.0709
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=a_kRfOHGSMAg&refer=australia

Carabanchel 16 Public Housing - Inhabitat (blog), 2007.0709
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/09/sustainable-public-housing-by-foreign-office-architects/

Battling to Keep the Country in the Texas Hill Country - New York Times, 2007.0708
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/realestate/08nati.html?_r=1&ref=realestate&oref=slogin

Beyond Decay, a Fantastical Three-Story Concoction - New York Times, 2007.0708
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/realestate/08scap.html

Click Your Way to an Architect-Designed House - New York Times, 2007.0706
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/realestate/greathomes/06online.html

MacCormac's Suburban Task Force Unveiled - BD Online, 2007.0706
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3090795&origin=BDweekly

David Mihkail's Richmond House: Minimal Quibbles - BD Online, 2007.0706
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3090775&origin=BDweekly

Home Builders Hold Up Better Outside U.S. - International Herald Tribune, 2007.0705
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/05/business/mhome07.php

Loan Changes in Brazil Motivate New Buyers and Home Building - GoUpstate, 2007.0705
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20070705/ZNYT01/707050377/1051/NEWS01

Welcome to the House of Foam - Telegraph, 2007.0705
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2007/07/05/npfoam105.xml

Housing Market Targeting Buyers 55 and Older - San Jose Mercury News, 2007.0705
http://origin.mercurynews.com/drive/ci_6307836

Could the London Property Market Be Cooling? - The Times (London), 2007.0701
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article1998829.ece

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	and how old is the building?
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