Links tagged with “housing”
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“Democratic Architecture” — GS
I like these small Donald MacDonald houses in San Francisco.
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Rightmove.co.uk - Featured Collections
Sure I’ve said this before, but I hope Rightmove, Zoopla, and/or estate agents are archiving photos. It’d be an amazing resource for historians.
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Municipal Dreams
A blog with long posts about the history of UK social housing, planning, etc. (via Wowhaus)
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Where will we live? by James Meek (LRB)
Linked to by everyone, for good reason. A good, long piece about the UK’s history of council and social housing, the architecture and planning, and where we are now. As with so many policy areas, I wish one of the main parties wanted to do something bold, different and good.
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The woman who lives in a shed: how London landlords are cashing in | Society | The Guardian
Sometimes I fear we’re going backwards.
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Homework and Jacuzzis as Dorms Move to McMansions in California - NYTimes.com
Big, cul-de-sac houses in America rented cheap by students. These cut-off developments are ripe to become the same kind of dead-end ghettos as neglected estates and 60s high-rises. (via @GreatDismal)
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Human landscapes in SW Florida - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Every single aerial photo is stunning, go look. Photos of housing developments, many undeveloped. I wouldn’t want to live in any of them. (via Kottke)
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Property search engine for homes for sale & property to rent in the UK - Globrix
Not a bad interface for property searches. Bookmarking because I like window shopping (or being nosey) and I’ll forget the meaningless URL.
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Op-Ed Contributor - For Sale - The $100 House - NYTimes.com
This is fascinating, showing a way the make-up of parts of cities could change drastically due to the recession. Although I wonder whether the journalist is extrapolating from an isolated one-off incident. (via Kottke)
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William Heath’s blog » A place to live
William Heath is looking for a place to create a “co-housing” project - people living slightly communally. The search is interesting.
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A Low Impact Woodland Home
The houses are a bit cutesy for my liking, but working on them (or something similarly self-buildy) over the summer would be interesting. If, you know, one didn’t have to work.
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Panoramic photograph of suburban sprawl near San Ramon, California | Matt Jalbert
Unreal-looking. Would be great to see this animated over a decade or two. (via Kottke again. He has such good links.)