Residential Tuesday 2008.1014

Wed Oct 15 14:15:01 PDT 2008

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you housing news and analysis weekly in 
this free newsletter from the editors of ArchitectureWeek.

What makes a functional market - bailouts notwithstanding?  Here's a 
pungent and on-point quotation from University of Maryland economist 
Herman Daly:

	The agglomerating of mortgages of differing quality into
	opaque and shuffled bundles should be outlawed. One of the
	basic assumptions of an efficient market with a meaningful
	price is a homogeneous product. For example, we have the
	market and corresponding price for No. 2 corn - not a market
	and price for miscellaneous randomly aggregated grains. Only
	people who have no understanding of markets, or who are
	consciously perpetrating fraud, could have either sold or
	bought these negative pigs in a poke. Yet the aggregating
	mathematical wizards of Wall Street did it, and now seem
	surprised at their inability to correctly price these
	idiotic "assets."

Growth Economics on a Finite Planet - New York Times blog, 2008.1013
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/growth-economics-on-a-finite-planet/

Residential Design and Building News
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Residential Developers to Face Tough Times - The Age, 2008.1014
http://business.theage.com.au/business/residential-developers-to-face-tough-times-20081013-4zwm.html

The Gathering Storm: Is Another Great Depression Approaching? - Cutting Edge News, 2008.1013
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=826&pageid=44&pagename=Slices

Modern No More - Sarasota Herald Tribune, 2008.1013
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20081013/REALESTATE/810130280/2055/NEWS?Title=Modern_no_more

Habitat for Humanity Project Revives Old Fears - Tennesean, 2008.1013
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081013/NEWS05/810130346/1006/NEWS01

Pending Home Sales Up Strongly - Imperial Valley News, 2008.1013
http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2986&Itemid=1

>From Subprime to Stock Swoon - The Globe and Mail, 2008.1013
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081013.RBANKSEXPLAINER13/TPStory/Business

London Assembly Likely to Abandoned House-Building Plan - Mortgage Brokers 4 London, 2008.1013
http://www.mortgagebrokers4london.co.uk/article.php?article_id=1087

Irish Construction Slumps as Home Building Declines - Bloomberg, 2008.1013
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aTzZQhbRv33w&refer=uk

Rally Skips Most Home Builders, Hit by Dour Commentary - Reuters, 2008.1013
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN1345486120081013

Should Taxpayers Fund the American Dream? - Los Angeles Times, 2008.1013
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/sunletters/la-oew-mitchell-abromowitz13-2008oct13,0,5906235.story

Dissecting McCain's Bailout Plan - Motley Fool, 2008.1013
http://www.fool.com/investing/dividends-income/2008/10/13/dissecting-mccains-bailout-plan.aspx

A Small Price to Pay - Providence Journal, 2008.1012
http://www.projo.com/home/content/lh_smallhouses_10-12-08_97BHPVL_v14.26292fd.html

Britain Starts Fight for Billions Trapped in Iceland - The Times (London), 2008.1012
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4926890.ece

Builders Use Old-Style Details in New Home Construction - Dallas Morning News, 2008.1012
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-nhg_historicnew_1011gd.ART.State.Edition1.1979382.html

Recession Stares on World's Largest Economy - Trading Markets, 2008.1010
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/TOP STORY/1936525/

Homebuilders Say 'Less Is More' with New Homes - International Herald Tribune, 2008.1010
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/10/business/NA-FIN-US-Smaller-Homes.php

In Oyster Bay, New Housing Limits - Long Island Building News, 2008.1010
http://www.libn.com/article.htm?articleID=43717

Residential Reclamations - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.1008
http://www.archweek.com/2008/1008/culture_1-1.html
	It's a spacious, imposing Los Angeles residence that has
	a central courtyard with lush vegetation and a cooling
	fountain. But don't look for palm trees or swimming
	pools or movie stars - this is no stereotypical
	Southern California abode.

Making It Home - New York Times, 2008.1008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/garden/09vets.html?scp=1&sq=building+AND+construction+AND+architecture&st=nyt

Rooftop Living - The Times (UK), 2008.1005
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article4873240.ece

Housing Stack - New York Times, 2008.1002
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/realestate/keymagazine/105hspile-t.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=building+AND+construction+AND+architecture&st=nyt&oref=slogin

People and Places by Nancy Novitski
	Daniel Libeskind in Warsaw, Poland - Charles Correa,
	with RMJM Hillier and Consiste in Lisbon, Portugal -
	Callison in Seattle, Washington - Foster + Partners in
	Saint-Etienne, France - KlingStubbins in Cambridge,
	Massachusetts - Hawkins/Brown in Nottingham, England,
	United Kingdom - Ann Beha Architects in Philadelphia,
	Pennsylvania - Wiginton Hooker Jeffrey Architects and
	Holzman Moss Architecture in Cedar Hill, Texas -
	Meltzer/ Mandl Architects in New York, New York -
	Architects Hanna Gabriel Wells in San Diego, California - 
	U+B Architecture & Design in Marrakech, Morocco...
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BIMStorm Settles over Alexandria, Va. - AIArchitect, 2008.1003
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Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User - New York Times, 2008.1002
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/tech-tips-for-the-basic-computer-user/

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	Why are floors called "stories" - as in a
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	Sound-absorbing structural masonry units are sometimes
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	materials are not appropriate. Can you describe how
	these special CMUs are configured to absorb sound?
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