Posts Tagged Suburbanism

Smaller Homes For America

November 17, 2010
Smaller Homes For America

According to a recent CNBC article by Cindy Perman, The Shrinking House: Downsizing the American Dream, Americans finally want smaller homes after a less than satisfying twenty year love affair with the out-of-the-box, cookie-cutter, house-that-every-architect-loves-to-hate McMansion.  In summary: “The median home size in America was near 2,300 square feet at the peak of the market [...]

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Dense Cities are Sustainable Cities

February 4, 2010
Dense Cities are Sustainable Cities

Or so we think. The reality is people (including researchers at the Institute) are still trying to figure out the scale of green house gas emissions coming from dense urban centers on a global level. But big thinkers ranging from Eric Sanderson to Barack Obama think that urban density is a worthwhile goal to work [...]

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