The Triumph of Multifamily Housing
By Nico Larco / On May 27th, 2014
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Life in a Suburb – Take a Second Look
By [node:field_contributor] / On March 21st, 2014
Cross-posted from the Gehl Architects blog, Cities for People
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Now Coveted: A Walkable, Convenient Place
By Christopher B. Leinberger / On May 29th, 2012
Walking isn't just good for you. It has become an indicator of your socioeconomic status.
Until the 1990s, exclusive suburban homes that were accessible only by car cost more, per square foot, than other kinds of American housing. Now, however, these suburbs have become overbuilt, and housing values have fallen. Today, the most valuable real estate lies in walkable urban locations.
#OccupySprawl: Easier, Faster and More Productive
By Admin / On October 25th, 2011
Inspired by the recent popular discontent expressed so colorfully on Wall Street, I offer this proposal: Occupy Sprawl!
People are not happy with the economy, with politics, with the government. Consider the physical surrounding of the protesters: the streets and squares in lower Manhattan where there are plenty of places to gather. Good urbanism provides good spaces for assembling and protesting. Our sprawling suburbs are devoid of such places. Where can people get together to show frustration (or to celebrate)? Are people happy with their physical environment in sprawl?
Reduced or Not, the Mortgage Interest Deduction Can Help Fix Sprawl
By Galina Tachieva / On September 19th, 2011
As of late, the mortgage interest deduction (MID), a tax break many Americans have become accustomed to, has become the focus of much debate and controversy. It first became the subject of heated discussion when President Obama’s debt commission suggested its reduction. They argued that in addition to reducing deficits, such reform could also help slow the growth of sprawl.
The Answer to the US Financial and Housing Crisis
By [node:field_contributor] / On September 15th, 2008
Much ink and paper profits have been spilt over the past few months over the financial and housing crisis. Almost all of it has been focused on the short-term consequences of the US housing industry structurally overbuilding the wrong product in the wrong location; the fringe of our metro areas. The market does not now and will not in the future want this product, as I have mentioned in previous postings.
The only parallel to the current structural change was in the 1950s and 1960s when Americans were abandoning our citie
The American Dream has Changed in the Past and is Changing Again
By [node:field_contributor] / On June 23rd, 2008
In the agricultural age, the 18th and 19th century, the American Dream could have been summarized as “40 acres and a mule.” An independent Jeffersonian “yeoman farmer” was an ideal that attracted many immigrants here. In the industrial age, the early and mid-20th century, the American Dream could have been summarized as “a single family house in the suburbs with a white picket fence around it,” what I call drivable sub-urban.