ArchWeek Residential 2009.0422
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Wed Apr 22 17:17:59 PDT 2009
Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,
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Small is beautiful? Heck, survival is beautiful these days!
Happy Earth Day - let's survive... as beautifully as we can!
FLINT, Mich. - Dozens of proposals have been floated over
the years to slow this city's endless decline. Now another
idea is gaining support: speed it up.
Instead of waiting for houses to become abandoned and then
pulling them down, local leaders are talking about
demolishing entire blocks and even whole neighborhoods.
The population would be condensed into a few viable areas.
So would stores and services. A city built to manufacture
cars would be returned in large measure to the forest
primeval.
"Decline in Flint is like gravity, a fact of life," said Dan
Kildee, the Genesee County treasurer and chief spokesman for
the movement to shrink Flint. "We need to control it instead
of letting it control us."
The recession in Flint, as in many old-line manufacturing
cities, is quickly making a bad situation worse.
Firefighters and police officers are being laid off as the
city struggles with a $15 million budget deficit. Many
public schools are likely to be closed.
"A lot of people remember the past, when we were a
successful city that others looked to as a model, and they
hope. But you can't base government policy on hope," said
Jim Ananich, president of the Flint City Council. "We have
to do something drastic."
An Effort to Save Flint, Mich., by Shrinking It - New York Times, 2009.0422
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/business/22flint.html
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Residential Design and Building News
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'Deeper' recession ahead says IMF - BBC News, 2009.0422
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8011907.stm
As Housing Market Dips, More in U.S. Are Staying Put - New York Times, 2009.0422
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/us/23census.html
Building Downturn Reflected in HIA Slump - The Age, 2009.0422
http://business.theage.com.au/business/building-downturn-reflected-in-hia-slump-20090421-ae46.html
Private House, Edgely Design, North London - Architecture & Design (Australia), 2009.0421
http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/Article/New-buildings/477902.aspx
Freddie Downplays Mortgage Bond Refinancing Impact - Reuters, 2009.0421
http://uk.reuters.com/article/globalClimate/idUKTRE53K3V320090421
US Treasury Weighs New Mortgage Subsidies-Sources - Reuters, 2009.0421
http://uk.reuters.com/article/americasRegulatoryNes/idUKN2157568420090421
Thy Neighbor's Mortgage - New York Times, 2009.0421
http://ethicist.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/thy-neighbors-mortgage/?hp
Architecture in Recession: United Kingdom - Business Week, 2009.0420
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2009/id20090420_536324.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_innovation+%2Bamp%3B+design
From Home Builder to Wind Booster - Miami Herald, 2009.0420
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/1008215.html
Help Is Slow for Those Stuck in Subprime Loans - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2009.0419
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/columnists.nsf/jimgallagher/story/11D3F84D4CD9899A8625759C000B6836?OpenDocument
Top Architects Attack Prince Charles - Again - The Times (UK), 2009.0419
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article6122786.ece
Vital Signs: Has Housing Hit Bottom? - Business Week, 2009.0416
http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/apr2009/pi20090416_462593.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_investing
U.S. Home Starts Fall; Permits Drop to Record Low - Vancouver Sun, 2009.0416
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/fp/home+starts+fall+permits+drop+record/1502366/story.html
Housing Construction Down 10.8 Percent in March - Washington Post, 2009.0416
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041601427.html?wprss=rss_business
Housing Starts Fell Sharply in March - Washington Post, 2009.0416
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041601427.html?wprss=rss_business
Mortgage Rates Fall, Foreclosure Rates Rise to Record - Fox Business, 2009.0416
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/real-estate/mortgage-rates-fall-foreclosure-rates-rise-record-levels/
Six Mortgage Lenders to Participate in Obama Housing Plan - Los Angeles Times, 2009.0416
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-briefs16-2009apr16,0,3606668.story
US Foreclosures Up 24 Percent in 1st Quarter - Associated Press, 2009.0416
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iX9fLTOpmlsstkmiryfTbwDovc0QD97JGCO00
Feds Release March Data on Housing Starts and Building Permits - Medill, 2009.0416
http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=126171
Hovnanian, Other Builders Gain as Sector Confidence Grows - CNN, 2009.0415
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200904151431DOWJONESDJONLINE000714_FORTUNE5.htm
Hello LEED v3! - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0415
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0415/news_1-1.html
The U.S. Green Building Council is rolling out the
long-awaited LEED Version 3 on April 27, 2009. It's been
ten years since the first LEED version was released in
1999, and this release is intended to initiate a pattern
of biennial updates.
Highlights from the Fed's Latest Economic Survey - New York Times, 2009.0415
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/15/washington/AP-Fed-Economy-Regions.html?scp=2&sq=building+AND+construction+AND+architecture&st=nyt
People and Places by Nancy Novitski
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Ayers/ Saint/ Gross in Charlottesville, Virginia - The Freelon
Group, Adjaye Associates, Davis Brody Bond, and SmithGroup in
Washington, D.C., USA - Peter Zumthor in Haldenstein,
Switzerland - Kha Le-Huu & Partners in Gainesville, Florida -
Moxon Architects in Preston, England, United Kingdom - Wittfoht
Architekten in Geneva, Switzerland - Jones Lang LaSalle, Clinton
Climate Initiative, Rocky Mountain Institute, and Johnson
Controls Inc in New York, New York - FARO architecten bv in
Amsterdam, Netherlands...
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Dassault Announces Flat First Quarter 2009 - Stockwatch, 2009.0416
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Autodesk Launches Partner Portal - Yahoo Finance, 2009.0413
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