Residential Tuesday 2008.0819

Tue Aug 19 21:24:04 PDT 2008

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis weekly
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How big a role does mixed-use housing play in your picture of residential
development-related business?

	For decades in the riverfront village of Hastings-on-Hudson,
	with its single-family houses lining steep streets, planning
	board officials discouraged apartments above stores in its
	small business district, classifying such living
	arrangements as nonconforming.

	These days Hastings officials are rethinking that approach,
	influenced by the strength of a nationwide trend toward
	mixed-used development ― in which people live close to
	retail outlets and mass transit, instead of spread out away
	from the town center and dependent on automobiles...

Single-Family, Meet Mixed-Use - New York Times, 2008.0810
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/realestate/10wczo.html?_r=1&scp=7&sq=architect+AND+design+AND+building&st=nyt&oref=slogin

Residential Design and Building News
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Canadian Housing Market Dodging Worst of U.S. Meltdown - Calgary Herald, 2008.0819
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusiness/story.html?id=6a6b950f-afad-4a5e-aae2-8080b468ce2f

U.S. Economy: Housing, Price Reports Raise Stagflation Danger - Bloomberg, 2008.0819
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aBbE5iz5ywC8&refer=home

U.S. Housing Starts Fall to 17-Year Low, Permits Drop - Bloomberg, 2008.0819
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aVXwPN7WNXwo&refer=home

Eco-Homes: Less Than Zero - Telegraph, 2008.0819
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2008/08/19/pcarbonzero119.xml

Residential Sector Scores D Minus on HIA's Report Card - Queensland Business Review, 2008.0819
http://www.qbr.com.au/index.cfm?storyid=35910&cp=displaystory&type=s

Building Materials Holding Corp. Sales Down 41% in 2Q - Modern Distribution Management, 2008.0819
http://www.mdm.com/issues/1_1/breaking-news/5605-1.html

US Home Building Tough in August - Business Day, 2008.0819
http://www.businessday.co.nz/world/4661408

U.K. Housing Industry Pulls Together to Improve Sustainability Success Rate - 24Dash, 2008.0818
http://www.24dash.com/news/Housing/2008-08-18-House-building-industry-pulls-together-to-improve-sustainability-success-rate

The Nationwide Housing Slowdown and Higher Energy Prices Affect Houston Concrete Companies - Houston Chronicle, 2008.0818
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5951973.html

Canadian Housing Market Cooling, but Not Like U.S., Bank Says - Gazette, 2008.0818
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=a2a6d747-e53e-4e50-9fd7-070dbf9dcb8a

Builders Still Gloomy, but See Glimmer of Hope - Market Watch, 2008.0818
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/builders-still-gloomy-see-glimmer/story.aspx?guid={45418AB5-729B-4DB1-94A5-0EB0B924E74C}&dist=msr_10

How Our Houses Reflect Our Values - San Jose Mercury News, 2008.0817
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_10229687

Taming the Rate Demon - Economic Times, 2008.0816
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Culture_Cauldron/Taming_the_rate_demon/articleshow/3369713.cms

From Barn Raisings to Home Building - Wall Street Journal, 2008.0815
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121875241065742425.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Piecing Together Community in New Orleans - AIArchitect, 2008.0815
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/0815/0815p_rebuild.cfm

Toll Brothers Sees Drop in Home-Building Revenue - Reuters, 2008.0813
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSWNAB699820080813

PCA Downgrades 2008 Cement Consumption Forecast - PCA Press Release at ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0813
http://www.archweek.com/2008/0813/press_release_2-1.html

Factory-Built Homes May Be Greener - Christian Science Monitor, 2008.0813
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/08/13/factory-built-homes-may-be-greener/

Revitalize Urban Core to Boost Walkability - Tennesean, 2008.0813
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080813/OPINION01/808130405/1008

Code Approval of Modular Housing Systems (MHS Prefab) - US Systems LLC Press Release at ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0813
http://www.archweek.com/2008/0813/press_release_1-1.html

ASLA Landscape Awards 2008 - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0813
http://www.archweek.com/2008/0813/news_1-1.html

In Slow Times, Rezoning Appeals to Developers - New York Times, 2008.0813
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/business/13rezone.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=building+AND+construction+AND+architecture&st=nyt&oref=slogin

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	Virginia - Will Alsop and Flannery & de la Pole in West
	Bromwich, England, United Kingdom...
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