Residential Tuesday 2007.1218

Tue Dec 18 15:25:14 PST 2007

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

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What role did federal regulators play in supporting or failing to
prevent the current mortgage crisis?  Perhaps even more importantly,
what role are bank regulators playing today, and how well is it 
working?

	"...And leaders of a housing advocacy group in California,
	meeting with Greenspan in 2004, warned that deception was
	increasing and unscrupulous practices were spreading.

	"John Gamboa and Robert Gnaizda of the Greenlining
	Institute implored Greenspan to use his bully pulpit and
	press for a voluntary code of conduct.

	"'He never gave us a good reason, but he didn't want to do
	it,' Gnaizda said last week. 'He just wasn't interested.'

	"Today, as the mortgage crisis of 2007 worsens and
	threatens to tip the economy into a recession, many are
	asking: where was Washington?

	"An examination of regulatory decisions shows that the
	Federal Reserve and other agencies waited until it was
	too late before trying to tame the industry's excesses.
	Both the Fed and the Bush administration placed a higher
	priority on promoting 'financial innovation' and what
	President George W. Bush has called the 'ownership
	society.'"

Fed shrugged as subprime crisis spread - IHT, 2007.1218
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/18/business/18subprime.php

Residential Design and Building News
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AECB Gives Guidance to Major House Builders - New Builder, 2007.1218
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=2261

Suburban Worrier - The Times (London), 2007.1218
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article3063553.ece

Acute Housing Shortage Persists Despite Slight Rise - Queensland Business Review, 2007.1217
http://www.qbr.com.au/index.cfm?storyid=33699&cp=displaystory&type=s

Home Builders' Index Steady at 22-Year Low - MarketWatch, 2007.1217
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/home-builders-index-steady-22-year/story.aspx?guid=%7B88B95B43-5E91-41D3-B1EA-DCE7E42CE1DC%7D

The Horror on the Hill - Haaretz, 2007.1217
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/935122.html

A House Divided - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 2007.1216
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071216/FEAT07/712160380

Asia Tries to Figure Out How to Cool Housing Market - Statesman, 2007.1216
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/statesmanhomes/12/16/1216asiahomes.html

A Town Center at City'S Edge - New York Times, 2007.1216
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/realestate/16livi.html?ref=realestate

The Heart of Teardown Country - New York Times, 2007.1216
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/realestate/16cov.html?_r=1&ref=realestate&oref=slogin

Manhattan Market Remains Stable - New York Times, 2007.1216
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/realestate/16deal2.html?ref=realestate

Air Rights, Swapped for Schools - New York Times, 2007.1216
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/realestate/16post.html?ref=realestate

FBI Seizes Builder's Records - Cincinatti Post, 2007.1215
http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071215/NEWS01/712150353

Building Them Like They Used To - Indianapolis Business Journal, 2007.1215
http://cms.ibj.com/ASPXPages/6iframes/FrontEndArticlesDetailPage.aspx?ArticleID=08851&NoFrame=1

Big Idea for Small, Affordable Homes Arises from a Mighty Storm - Philadelphia Daily News, 2007.1214
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/features/20071214_Big_idea_for_small__affordable_homes_arises_from_a_mighty_storm.html

Razing of New Orleans Housing Halted - Examiner, 2007.1214
http://www.examiner.com/a-1105833~Razing_of_New_Orleans_Housing_Halted.html

Port Lawrence and Cocoplum Resort Community - New York Times, 2007.1214
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/travel/escapes/14break1.html?ref=realestate

Building an Igloo - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.1212
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1212/index.html

Build Boston 2007 - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.1212
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1212/news.html
	Fundamental changes in the nature of architectural
	practice and building construction are taking place
	today. Those changes were clearly evident at the 2007
	Build Boston convention and trade show. ...

Builders' Lobbyist: We Made Too Many Homes - CNN, 2007.1212
http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/12/news/economy/builders/?postversion=2007121313

Subprime Cottage: Eco-Friendly W. Eminent Domain View - Blogger News Network, 2007.1211
http://www.bloggernews.net/112321

Housing: A Crisis with Staying Power - Christian Science Monitor, 2007.1210
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1210/p01s01-usgn.htm

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People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1212/news_1-1.html

	Renzo Piano, KieranTimberlake, and Stanley Tigerman in
	Washington, D.C., USA ― Gensler in Los Angeles,
	California ― Kirksey in Houston, Texas ― LMN Architects
	in San Diego, California ― Graeber, Simmons & Cowan in
	Austin, Texas ― Lang Hugger Rampp GmbH in Dubai, United
	Arab Emirates ― Hopkins Architects, Burns Wald-Hopkins
	Architects, and Arup in Tucson, Arizona ―
	NAC|Architecture in Spokane, Washington ― Wilkinson Eyre
	Architects in London, England, United Kingdom ― Orcutt
	Winslow in Scottsdale, Arizona ― Michele De Lucchi in
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	Architect, P.C. in Floral Park, New York ― NBBJ and Fei &
	Cheng Associates in Taipei, Taiwan ― SANAA in New York,
	New York ― Earth Lab Architects in Randjesfontein, South
	Africa...

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	The Abbey of St. Denis (mid-12th century France) is
	considered one of the first and most influential
	buildings distinguishing a new architectural style in
	Europe. What was this style?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1212/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	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/2007/1212/answer.html

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	Patterns of Home - Introducing a series 
	by Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, and Barbara Winslow
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