Residential Tuesday 2007.0807

Tue Aug 7 18:49:12 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. 

Perhaps as a natural reaction to the recent subprime loan news, this
week saw a resurgence in coverage of affordable housing issues from
Australia and New Zealand to China, the United Kingdom, and
throughout North America.

And an essay by Anne Manne in The Age looks in part at housing
cost as it relates to other aspects of modern life:

	The old "society of children" inhabiting the backyards,
	creeks, parks and streets are more likely in a structured
	after-school program. And for the little ones, the
	multinational corporate chain, ABC Learning Centres, is as
	ubiquitous as McDonald's, offering care from six weeks to
	school age. I drive past one that has more parking than
	playing space. High black metal bars surround the small pens
	designated for outside play. They are covered in bright
	green plastic grass.

	Driving with one of my daughters recently, I suddenly said,
	"You know, I won't tell you how to balance your family with
	work, but I will say this. If you think about buying a
	house, consider buying a small one. A modest house with a
	mortgage to match. That one decision will give you more
	freedom on how to live your lives than any other."

	For it had suddenly struck me that many of our contemporary
	social problems are interlinked. They are not, as they are
	usually presented, isolated issues. Every one of them has
	the same root cause - they are merely a subset of the larger
	problem of overconsumption.

	Enough Already - The Age (Australia), 2007.0804
	http://www.theage.com.au/news/general/enough-already/2007/08/03/1185648109938.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

Residential Design and Building News
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Lowered Ceiling on Rent Planned - Missourian, 2007.0807
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2007/08/07/lowered-ceiling-rent-planned/

Affordable No More - Edmonton Journal, 2007.0807
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=32c89a2d-6c0e-43fc-b97e-cc1bea265176&k=6695

New Affordable Housing Complex for L.A. - KTLA, 2007.0807
http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-affhousing,0,2209519.story?coll=ktla-news-2

Palo Alto Council Approves Affordable Housing Project - San Jose Mercury News, 2007.0807
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_6564232

Housing Scene in Turmoil - Seacoast Online, 2007.0807
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070807/BIZ/708070369

House Prices 'to Soar 40 Per Cent within Next Five Years' - Daily Mail, 2007.0806
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=473421&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

The Rich Will Get Richer; the Poor Will Move Away - Sydney Morning Herald, 2007.0806
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/the-rich-will-get-richer-the-poor-will-move-away/2007/08/06/1186252629439.html

Is Santa Fe Ready for a Makeover? - New York Times, 2007.0805
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/travel/05SantaFe.html

'New Florida House' to Emphasize Retrofitting - Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 2007.0805
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070805/REALESTATE/708050338

Affordable Housing Doesn't Have to Mean Projects - Newsday, 2007.0805
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpsunedit5321092aug05,0,2716969.story

Why Retreat on Affordable Housing Ordinance? - Opinion at Sacramento Bee, 2007.0805
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/307903.html

Builders Promote Smaller Homes - Daily Herald, 2007.0804
http://homes.dailyherald.com/story.php?id=3929812&s=nh

Weyerhaeuser Drops on Weak Demand - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0803
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/326362_weyerearns04.html

Surviving Urban Renewal - New York Sun, 2007.0803
http://www.nysun.com/article/59758

Touch the Sky - Financial Times, 2007.0803
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9bea7092-409e-11dc-9d0c-0000779fd2ac.html

Design Steps Up in Disaster's Wake - New York Times, 2007.0802
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/garden/02biloxi.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Economic Data Show a Mystifying Muddle - Philadelphia Daily News, 2007.0801
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/8845817.html

Forget the High-Rise Slums of the Past - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0731
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,2138254,00.html

This New House - New York Times, 2007.0730
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/books/review/Green-t.html?em&ex=1185854400&en=36dc49830acc9272&ei=5087%0A

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	While "broach" can mean a piece of jewelry, it is also
	used as a verb and a noun in stone masonry. What is a
	broach in masonry terms?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0801/quiz.html

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	In response to concerns about climate changes, there has
	been a movement in several areas of the country to
	require higher levels of environmental responsibility in
	the design and construction of buildings. In some cases
	this effort is led by architects, such as in Oregon,
	where architects have helped initiate legislation (not
	yet adopted) requiring state-funded buildings over a
	certain size and cost to meet LEED (Leadership in Energy
	and Environmental Design) Gold standards. Many of us
	think of "green" architecture as being mostly concerned
	with energy conservation. LEED addresses energy and four
	other major areas of concern. What are the four other
	areas that LEED addresses?
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