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February 08, 2010
ULI - Housing in America The Next Decade

"Those who fail to understand these new trends will miss opportunities..."
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January 21, 2010
Target's Big Picture:

Smaller stores in urban neighborhoods.
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November 09, 2009
A Park, not a Neighborhood

The problems and possibilities of the Dallas Arts District
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October 22, 2009
WCD on MHN Online

WCD is featured on the Multihousing World News Website.
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October 20, 2009
Parking Disappearing in the Region?

The District is pulling up parking lots and putting in meters.
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October 16, 2009
Radical Parking

Can Cars Share Space With Bicyclists & Pedestrians?
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October 12, 2009
Denver: Doubling Transit Ridership

The boldest move by a US city to remake its transportation system...
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October 02, 2009
First Illinois Cohousing development

Cohousing originated in Denmark in the early 1970s as a way of fostering community on a small scale, usually 15 to 30 households.
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August 10, 2009
Multifamily's Future

Are Forcing Changes in Apartment Development?
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August 06, 2009
Mixed-Use Libraries

Budget saving reconfigurations plan for the future.
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July 29, 2009
Creative Infill

Sustainability through unique space utilization.
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July 24, 2009
New HUD Senior Advisor

TOD to become more of HUD priority?
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July 23, 2009
Rethinking Street Space

Why Street Design Matters
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July 21, 2009
Crowdsourced Placemaking

The collective think tank of design.
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July 14, 2009
Downtown L.A. Live/Work

Revised Ordinances May Help Enliven Urban Mixed-Use
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July 13, 2009
Plastic = Green Computers

Plastic Circuits to Make Tougher, Greener Computers
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July 08, 2009
Real Mixed-Use

Flushing out the impostors.
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July 07, 2009
Who Gets a Cut of the Pie?

Put Transit Where the People Are...
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July 03, 2009
IGCC

International Green Construction Code
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July 01, 2009
Reclaiming Public Space

"Each case is a laboratory for the next case."
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June 30, 2009
Brick City Urban Farms

Inside Urban Green presents an excellent urban farm story.
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June 29, 2009
Designing Coexistence

4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
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June 19, 2009
Green Building in Dallas

October 2009 Dallas takes step toward 2030 goal.
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June 18, 2009
Andres Duany on KERA

Ok, suburbia is unsustainable, now what?
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June 17, 2009
Urban Farming, a Bit Closer to the Sun

The latest trend in green roofs- rooftop gardening.
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June 15, 2009
Rail Spurs Urban Revival

In a down economy, urban renewal a bright spot...
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June 11, 2009
Work Communities

Communities aren't just where you live...
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June 09, 2009
Former Poor Farm Will Help Feed County's Poor

Volunteers to grow organic produce on surplus county land.
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June 04, 2009
Retrofitting Suburbia

"A way of allowing people to stay...but enjoy a more engaged...lifestyle."
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June 03, 2009
Residents Buy Local Asset

Historic Highland Park mall was purchased by a consortium of residents.
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May 28, 2009
ReVision Dallas Winners

Three top designs will be used to influence the future design.
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April 15, 2009
Detroit Wildlife

A video on the changing urban landscape of Detroit, MI
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April 13, 2009
Vertical Gardens Exhibit

Going to be in New York? Dig vertical gardens? Have I got the place for you...
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February 20, 2009
ULI Showcases Garland TOD

The project will be one of four featured at Development Workshop
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February 16, 2009
When a Forest Builds a Community

"Community development can grow from the belief that the community itself has or is able to develop solutions to the issues it faces."
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February 10, 2009
MerryPlace Published in Affordable Housing Finance

Affordable Housing Finance Article - February 2009
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January 19, 2009
Re:Visioning Urbanism

Sustainable City Block to Rise out of Parking Lot Behind Dallas City Hall.
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January 19, 2009
Bauhaus Design for Third World Housing

The Wall paper house offers cheap dry home for the poor and displaced.
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January 12, 2009
The Ripple Effect: Water Management as Planning Catalyst at Multiple Scales

This paper by EDAW investigates city smart water management techniques.
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January 08, 2009
Redesigning the World

America's boutique architecture firms mix avant-garde designs with local color.
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January 03, 2009
More than 100 million Americans breathe sooty air

People in 46 American metropolitan areas breathe air that exceeds federal soot levels, according to new figures from the Environmental Protection Agency.
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January 02, 2009
Bike lane controversy in Brooklyn

A new bike lane was implemented in Brooklyn this fall that has removed stop signs and, according to residents, made their street unsafe.
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January 02, 2009
Better Streets Called one of the Top Reason to Love New York.

New York Magazine's list of reasons to love New York includes a praise to the city's streets and their recent renovation into pedestrian- and bike-friendly thoroughfares.
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January 02, 2009
Seattle may ease rules to encourage affordable housing downtown.

Seattle has been allowing developers to build higher buildings in exchange for contributing to a fund for affordable housing. But with few units built, officials are hoping to rewrite the legislation to remove restrictions and get more housing built.
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November 22, 2008
Kimbell Expansion Plan Announced

On Tuesday in Fort Worth, Texas, Renzo Piano presented his plan for expanding Louis Kahn's 36 year old masterpiece, the Kimbell Art Museum.
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November 21, 2008
Old Europe and New Brooklyn in Williamsburg

An influx of Europeans are calling the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn their new home. With housing costs much lower here than Manhattan and the wide acceptance of various nationalities, these recent immigrants are finding this neighborhood to be a true community.
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November 20, 2008
A New Wind Is Blowing in Chicago

As President-elect Barack Obama calls Chicago home and he will take a piece of the "Windy City" with him as he makes his way to Washington. Alex Kotlowitz, an author living in Chicago, describes "There is a really strong sense of self in Chicago: Poeple aren't defined by wealth or by work or accomplishments, but rather who they are. Obama seems so comfortable in his skin and with who he is. That's so Chicago."
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November 20, 2008
Debating the Green Building Premium

USGBC announced that the building costs for a green building is 2.5 percent more than a regular building, however, experts also state the payback averages five to eight years. Is building green worth it?
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November 16, 2008
"Green Community" at NBM

"Green Community", on exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. until October 2009, features JHP's work at Atlantic Station, a mixed use Whole Community in Atlanta's vibrant Midtown Area. The exhibition explores the idea that "the health of our communities, our planet, and ourselves depend on how we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings."
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July 29, 2008
Urban Market Thriving

The Urban Market, once on life support, is alive and well in downtown Dallas.
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July 22, 2008
Urban Garden Prototype

Can urban areas grow their own food?
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July 17, 2008
Guerilla Gardening

Under the cover of darkness vigilantes start planting.
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July 02, 2008
The Metropolitan Era

Cities and their surrounding suburbs are the new building blocks of an economy both global and local.
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June 25, 2008
Will Gas Prices Makes Suburban Life Impractical?

"Many low-density suburbs and McMansion subdivisions, including some that are lovely and affluent today, may become what inner cities became in the 1960s and '70s - slums characterized by poverty, crime and decay," said Christopher Leinberger, an urban land use expert
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June 13, 2008
Instant City: Rethinking Democratic Space

What happens when "instant" communities erupt like crowds at a sporting event or refugee camps after a disaster?
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June 06, 2008
Rawabi

Planned Palestinian City in West Bank Faces Hurdles
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May 22, 2008
Senior Cohousing in Dallas - Wildflower Village

Instead of following the trend of many empty nesters moving back to the urban core, or buying into development driven planned communities, some are looking to shape their own retirement experience.
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May 15, 2008
Construction Begins On First TOD in Austin, TX

High Street Residential (a division of the Trammell Crow Company) has begun construction on the Midtown Commons project.
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May 14, 2008
ULI: Mass Transit is Answer to North Texas

"Money alone � whether it comes from tolls, taxes or both � won't solve traffic problems in North Texas, and it won't be enough to repair America's aging infrastructure." - ULI
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May 13, 2008
International Design Awards Recognize Innovative Design

The "Land and Sea" competition from IDA selected ZM Architecture and their "Lillies" project as the winners of the professional architecture category.
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May 03, 2008
Atlantic Station helps Family Slash Carbon Footprint

"Atlanta resident Malaika Taylor used to live the typical suburban life � the kind that helps make America the world's top contributor to climate change. But four years ago, fed up with commuting, Taylor and her 11-year old daughter, Maya, moved from the suburbs to the city..."
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March 17, 2008
Dell at CES Show

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) showcases many new and emerging technologies. This year the main focus of the show clearly centered on green and sustainable technologies and what companies were doing to embrace this in both their consumer electronics and their facilities operations.
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February 07, 2008
Triumph in the Tenderloin

In a tough San Francisco neighborhood, the working poor get a handsome courtyard and a sunny roof space for their own plots. This article, that was published by Landscape Architecture, in Feb 01, 2008, looks at how landscape architects have combined green roofs, public spaces and affordable housing to address the chronic homelessness in San Francisco's �infamous Tenderloin district�.
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January 31, 2008
Vickery Meadow TOD Studio

The Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington has a Graduate design studio focusing on redevelopment opportunities for North Dallas.
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January 30, 2008
A Shelter Is Built Green, to Heal Inside and Out

Oakland to open GREEN Homeless Shelter. "The facility, Crossroads, which will accommodate 125 residents, may be the only �green� homeless shelter built from the ground up. It has a solar-paneled roof, hydronic heating, artful but practical ceiling fans, nontoxic paint, windows that can be opened to let in fresh air, and desks and bureaus made from pressed wheat."
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January 29, 2008
�Green� Buildings Don�t Have to Be New

This article from The New York Times looks at renovation of older buildings to achieve greater energy efficiency, and how this trend has seen a rise in popularity in recent years.
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January 19, 2008
SYSTM Explores WIRED Living Homes Exhibit in L.A.

The Revision3 podcast SYSTM this week takes a tour of the construction of the technological and sustainable innovation being implemented at WIRED Magazine's Living Home Exhibit in Los Angeles.
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January 17, 2008
The Revolution Will Not Be Designed

"As we look beyond housing solutions to urban poverty, good design is enjoying a second coming as the cure for what ails us."
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January 11, 2008
Nanosolar Ships First Panels

Nanosolar, a company with the stated mission of reducing the cost of solar technology, ships their first panels.
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February 08, 2010
ULI - Housing in America

"Those who fail to understand these new trends will miss opportunities..."
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January 21, 2010
Target's Big Picture:

Smaller stores in urban neighborhoods.
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November 09, 2009
A Park, not a Neighborhoo

The problems and possibilities of the Dallas Arts District
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October 22, 2009
WCD on MHN Online

WCD is featured on the Multihousing World News Website.
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