Residential Tuesday 2007.1211

Tue Dec 11 16:12:07 PST 2007

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Wide streets have many downsides, cost, environmental impacts,
and dubious aesthetics among them - particularly for streets inside 
residential neighborhoods.  Yet in many places, street standards 
continue to require far more pavement than is optimal.  Paul Berton 
sees London, Canada among them:

	"At the heart of the new urbanism is the need for more
	cozy, friendly, walkable neighbourhood streets. London
	doesn't have enough of them, and one reason is because
	our streets are simply too wide, and our houses set too
	far back.

	"To make inviting pedestrian environments, the buildings
	along each side of the street must wrap or coddle people
	on the sidewalk -- they must be closer to the road. The
	buildings must be of a scale and design to encourage
	human activity. If the street is too wide, it makes
	pedestrians feel like they're alone out on the ocean -- a
	bleak, windy, lonely existence.

	"London's wide streets are no accident. The city requires
	building setbacks and a minimum road allowance of 20
	metres, far more than necessary in many other cities
	across Canada, and far wider than private roads in
	condominium developments.

	"It is impossible to create a cozy, comfortable, walkable
	environment as long as the rules don't change."

London's Residential Streets Are Too Wide - London Free Press, 2007.1208
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Opinion/Editorials/2007/12/08/4713947-sun.html

Residential Design and Building News
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Housing Finds Its New-Age Nirvana - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.1211
http://www.scenta.co.uk/Nature/1711078/housing-finds-its-new-age-nirvana.htm

City Warns of 10% Slump in House Prices - Independent Digital, 2007.1211
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article3236035.ece

Local Housing Analysis - St Petersburg Times, 2007.1211
http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=24436

Home Builders Will Survive Market - Cincinnati Community Press, 2007.1210
http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071210/EDIT/712100364/1106/RSS1115

Snohomish Man's Low-Cost 'Terrazzo' Flooring - Herald Net, 2007.1210
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20071210/BIZ/712100011/1005

PM Warned over Home Building Plan - Channel 4, 2007.1210
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/business_money/pm+warned+over+home+building+plan/1166352

Property Mogul Bets on House Price Rise - The Times (London), 2007.1209
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/construction_and_property/article3021303.ece

Homebuyers to Share with Facebook Pals - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.1209
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2007/dec/09/firsttimebuyers.property

Barn Stormers - The Times (London), 2007.1209
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/investment/article3009533.ece

A Pad for the Occasional Bachelor - New York Times, 2007.1209
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/realestate/09sketch.html?ref=realestate

Accentuating the Negative - New York Times, 2007.1209
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/realestate/09nati.html?ref=realestate

A Refuge from Sticker Shock - New York Times, 2007.1209
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/realestate/09livi.html?ref=realestate

Homebuilding & Renovating Awards - Telegraph, 2007.1208
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2007/12/08/phraward108.xml

The Best Houses of 2007 - The Times (London), 2007.1207
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article3010078.ece

Designing the Future - The Age (Australia), 2007.1207
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/designing-the-future/2007/12/07/1196813014910.html

How Hot Land Sales Offset a Housing Glut in Phoenix - Wall Street Journal, 2007.1207
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119699374159516620.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Additional Philosophy - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.1205
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/1205/index.html
	Nestled on the edge of a dike in the southwestern
	Netherlands, the compact Punt House addition completed
	by Geen Punt Architecten (GPA) in summer 2007 carefully
	reconciles no fewer than three disparate architectural
	philosophies within its slender wood frame.

Cities, Suburbs Deal with Increase in Super-Sized "McMansions" - Infozine, 2007.1205
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/25950/

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    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/news_1-1.html

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	Minnesota - Lord, Aeck & Sargent in Gatlinburg,
	Tennessee - Studio Pali Fekete architects and Lab
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	Associates, Inc. in Dallas, Texas...

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	Rammed-earth and adobe walls are sometimes used in the
	southwestern and south-central United States, among other
	places worldwide. The selection of one system over the
	other might be made based on the character of the native
	soil. What is the fundamental difference between the
	soils used in rammed earth and in adobe walls?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	What is a "jack" rafter, what is a "roof tree," and what 
	would you call the shortest distance between two opposite 
	common rafter seats?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/answer.html

Classic Home 003 - Half-timbered house, by Glenn Phelps, Architect
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