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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1347 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:25 pm    Post subject: ArchWeek Residential 2009.0312 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. Quote: 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 Residential Design and Building News ------------------------------------ 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 Handel Architects in Houston, Texas - tvsdesign in Daytona Beach, Florida - Stonehill & Taylor in New York, New York - KSS Architects in Princeton, New Jersey - NBBJ and Fei & Cheng Associates in Taipei, Taiwan... -- * -- Please help us build ArchitectureWeek with your support... 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