ArchWeek Residential 2009.0312
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Thu Mar 12 14:36:45 PDT 2009
Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,
ArchWeek Residential brings you housing news and analysis weekly
from the editors of ArchitectureWeek.
Housing will not prosper again until homeowners and renters are
prospering. A key question of recovery is how deep we need to
go - how far things have to change - to establish a renewed,
well-founded, and sustainable level of prosperity for renters and
homeowners.
Sixteen years ago, two economists published a research paper
with a delightfully simple title: "Looting."
The economists were George Akerlof, who would later win a
Nobel Prize, and Paul Romer, the renowned expert on economic
growth. In the paper, they argued that several financial
crises in the 1980s, like the Texas real estate bust, had
been the result of private investors taking advantage of the
government. The investors had borrowed huge amounts of
money, made big profits when times were good and then left
the government holding the bag for their eventual (and
predictable) losses.
In a word, the investors looted. Someone trying to make an
honest profit, Professors Akerlof and Romer said, would have
operated in a completely different manner. The investors
displayed a "total disregard for even the most basic
principles of lending," failing to verify standard
information about their borrowers or, in some cases, even to
ask for that information...
The Looting of America's Coffers
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/business/economy/11leonhardt.html
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Residential Design and Building News
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The Lack of Resemblance Is Completely Intentional - New York Times, 2009.0312
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/realestate/15scapes.html
They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street - New York Times, 2009.0310
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/science/10quant.html?_r=1&ref=science
Housing Market 'Still in a Slump' - BBC News, 2009.0310
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7932830.stm
Compulsory Building Insurance under Fire - Sydney Morning Herald, 2009.0310
http://www.smh.com.au/national/compulsory-building-insurance-under-fire-20090309-8tcm.html
Area Homes Affordable Again - Orlando Sentinel, 2009.0309
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-biz-real-estate-030909,0,7652819.story
House Building 'to Hit 88-Year Low' - Press Association, 2009.0309
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gzRSfZ8S2faPWBi7nNDABfY7Eonw
Earth-Friendly House in Works - San Diego Union-Tribune, 2009.0309
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/mar/09/1m9dreyfuss2180-earth-friendly-house-works/?zIndex=63972
New Bushfire Standards to Govern Home Building - Smith Coast Register, 2009.0309
http://nowra.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/new-bushfire-standards-to-govern-home-building/1453865.aspx
N.Z. Construction Declines, House Prices Fall to Four-Year Low - Bloomberg, 2009.0309
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aepomljwVDF8&refer=home
Home Building Falls Further - Stuff, 2009.0309
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/2200787/Home-building-falls-further
Home Builders Get Creative to Survive - Minnesota Public Radio, 2009.0309
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/09/buiders/
U.K. House-Building Subsidies Warning - Press Association, 2009.0309
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iJKXwM_K-Iws8GipW8hcFZQR5Xew
Home Builders Could Be a Risk Worth Taking - Washington Post, 2009.0307
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/07/AR2009030700157.html
A Rare Chance to Buy a Frank Lloyd Wright House - San Francisco Chronicle, 2009.0307
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/07/RE0U167P7D.DTL
Urbanity the Rule in Contemporary Townhouse - New York Times, 2009.0307
http://www.projo.com/projohomes/houseoftheweek/content/RE_McNamara0307_03-07-09_79DF034_v19.14558aa.html
Affordable Housing Can Be Built at an Affordable Price - Vancouver Sun, 2009.0306
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Affordable+housing+built+affordable+price/1360013/story.html
In Las Vegas, a Break in the Real Estate Action - New York Times, 2009.0306
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/greathomesanddestinations/06vegas.html?scp=3&sq=house+home+residential+building&st=nyt
Building a Beach House in the Snow - International Herald Tribune, 2009.0305
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/05/properties/reniseko.php
A Hilltop Village of Their Own - New York Times, 2009.0305
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/garden/05yee.html?scp=3&sq=architecture+AND+design+AND+building&st=nyt
Colin St. John Wilson - Two Houses - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0304
http://www.archweek.com/2009/0304/design_1-1.html
The design of the two Grantchester Road Houses in Cambridge
explored the conventional idea of a mixed residential,
terraced street architecture. Although only a pair of houses
were built, they were based upon a system of elements whose
combination could have extended the pair into a whole street
with many variations.
Real Life Regreening - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0304
http://www.archweek.com/2009/0304/culture_1-1.html
At 15 acres in a context with an urban structure, Uptown
District strengthens the neighborhood with a great mix of
uses, including a community center, while operating as
infill, blending into the neighborhood more of less
seamlessly rather than being clearly identified as a new
"development." On only seven acres (three hectares),
Kirkwood Station Plaza contributes a grand public plaza to
its surroundings but is too small to itself constitute a
neighborhood.
What's the Skinny? - Washington City Paper, 2009.0225
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2009/02/18/whats-the-skinny/
Where Compact Equals Comfort - Boston Globe, 2009.0225
http://www.boston.com/realestate/articles/2009/02/22/where_compact_equals_comfort_1235215523/
People and Places by Nancy Novitski
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0304/news_1-1.html
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Daytona Beach, Florida - Stonehill & Taylor in New
York, New York - KSS Architects in Princeton, New
Jersey - NBBJ and Fei & Cheng Associates in Taipei,
Taiwan...
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