Residential Tuesday 2008.0909

Thu Sep 11 08:00:24 PDT 2008

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Residential Design and Building News
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Wall Street Retreats after Home Data - Associated Press, 2008.0909
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gHs5OM3gFG_DytQQZFbWfgPT08MAD9338SLO0

Pending Home Resales Decline More Than Forecast - Bloomberg, 2008.0909
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aZFgAxUK63y8&refer=home

Canadian Housing Starts Rise in August - Canadian Press, 2008.0909
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hkai9pHX_JFlbQh3x-CTsOg-80aA

U.S. Pending Home Sales Fall, Canadian Housing Starts Rise - CEP, 2008.0909
http://www.economicnews.ca/cepnews/wire/article/117058

Home Mortgage Rate Cut Not Enough to Revive US Housing - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0909
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7785864

Bright Days, Best House Tours - San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0909
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/09/HOKN12HD2P.DTL

Drop in Asia after Takeover of Fannie, Freddie - Reuters, 2008.0908
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUST25310920080908

Fannie, Freddie Takeover Offers Recovery Hope: Analysts - Associated Foreign Press, 2008.0908
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iEId2iT92H5DcDR7xacY352sUOGQ

Government Is Now 'Nation's Mortgage Lender' - MSNBC, 2008.0908
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26607308/

In Los Angeles, a Housing Enclave Salutes Its Industrial Past - New York Times, 2008.0907
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/realestate/commercial/07sqft.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=construction+home+residential&st=nyt&oref=slogin

Construction Site Theft Builds - Chicago Tribune, 2008.0907
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-re-construction-theft-0907sep07,0,6426222.story

On June 30, 2009, Buy an Apartment - New York Magazine, 2008.0907
http://nymag.com/news/businessfinance/bottomline/49938/

Risky Mortgages Threaten to Keep Housing Market Down - Detroit Free Press, 2008.0907
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080907/BUSINESS04/809070341

Next Housing Boom: Smaller and Greener - KSLA News 12, 2008.0905
http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=8691840&nav=menu50_11_12

Trading New York for Midwest Grit - New York Times, 2008.0904
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/garden/04minneapolis.html?scp=7&sq=architecture+AND+design+AND+building&st=nyt

Salvaged Materials Make a Winning Renovation - The Oregonian, 2008.0904
http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2008/09/salvaged_materials_form_the_fo.html

As Losses Continue, Builders Blame Foreclosures - CNN, 2008.0904
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200809041649DOWJONESDJONLINE000895_FORTUNE5.htm

Manser Medal 2008 Shortlist Announced - World Architecture News, 2008.0903
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10283

On the Ranch - Boise Weekly, 2008.0903
http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A317082

Thought House Prices Had Crashed Here? In Sicily They Cost One Euro - The Times (UK), 2008.0902
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/overseas/article4656814.ece

Funny Farm - New York Times, 2008.0829
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/magazine/31Style-t.html?_r=1&scp=6&sq=architecture+AND+design+AND+building&st=nyt&oref=slogin

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Researcher: Chrome's Isolated Tabs Make It Memory 'Pig' - Computer World, 2008.0903
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10 Great Google Earth Add-Ons - Computer World, 2008.0903
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Google Releases Chrome Browser Beta - Internet News, 2008.0902
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Geomagic Gets NSF Grant for Phase IIB Project - TenLinks, 2008.0902
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BIM and Green Building Studio - Cadalyst, 2008.0828
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	In 1830 the initial grid was laid out for the town of
	Chicago, Illinois, and by 1833 there were 200 houses.
	The population continued to expand and the city was
	mostly built of wood-framed buildings until the Great
	Fire of 1871 gutted Chicago's core. There were 300,000
	people living in Chicago at the time of the fire.

	The rebuilding of Chicago drove a boom and the
	population exploded to two million by 1900. This growth
	created pressure for a taller, denser city. What two
	inventions in 1850 and 1867 allowed for this upward growth?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	Match each energy type with its geologic origins:
	1. Natural Gas
	2. Oil
	3. Coal
	A. Formed from organic remains of algae that thrived in
	the oceans during two warm periods 90 million and 150
	million years ago.
	B. Also from buried remains of ancient organisms, but
	unlike "A" above, comes from plants and animals that
	decomposed at higher temperatures deeper
	underground.
	C. Warm, wet climates 360 million to 300 million years
	ago gave rise to an explosive growth of swamp plants
	that were eventually buried, subjected to high
	temperatures and transformed into this energy source.
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