The Case of Short Term Rentals and San Francisco ~ First in a four part series on the Sharing Economy and its effects on the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood ...
First in a four part series on the Sharing Economy and its effects on the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood hosted by Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council on May ...
The intergenerational theft that is the legacy for our youth is not public debt, it is the mountain of private debt at the heart of our new banana republic
A research group at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (iaac.net), based in Barcelona set on a goal of re-elaborating 3D printing techniques to overcome existing limitations for large scale application.
Using open source software to design and custom build houses, together with a change in planning law, could open up the market so we could build affordable homes we want to live in
In the mid-eighteenth century the builders of new popular housing on the orchards and crop land of Raval replaced the heavy, expensive and dangerous tiled gable rooves, typical of the Medieval and Baroque city buildings by a quicker and less expensive formula. A slightly inclined surface to collect rainwater that drained through holes in the parapet: the roof terrace.
The planning system enables developers and landowners to make large profits while the public sector struggles with infrastructure costs and making homes affordable. Any new housebuilding policy should keep control over land and retain its value for the public good, argue Steve Bendle and Pat Conaty.
Multipod Studio have patented a unique approach to passive construction that delivers outsanding thermal insulation at an affordable cost. No special tools required, the house is assembled using lightweight and recyclable materials for quick installation. The materials used are inexpensive so the cost remains unbeatable and the thermal envelope created means no additional heating is necessary. The first prototype of this new type of passive house, has bloomed in the pine valleys of the South of France.
Images and excerpt from the Sustainist Design Guide: How Sharing, Localism, Connectedness, and Proportionality are Creating a New Agenda for Social Design, by Michiel Schwarz and Diana Krabbendam with The Beach Network. Design: Robin Uleman.
One of the most fascinating companies that we have covered over the past year has been a company called WASP, which stands for “World’s Advanced Saving Project”. We have reported in the past, that... View the entire article via our website.
Cool Brick utilizes the phenomenon of evaporative cooling, in hopes of reducing our dependence on air conditioning. The post This Weird 3-D Printed Brick Can Cool Your House appeared first on WIRED.
Welcome home. (3Ders.org) The Shanghai-based construction firm WinSun Decoration Design Engineering has unveiled a five-story apartment building made entirely with a giant 3D printer, and is calling it "the world's tallest 3D-printed building."...
Vinay Gupta is a Global Resilience Guru, the inventor of the Hexayurt (the potential solution to the housing crisis), an expert on the macro impact of Bitcoin, a historian and political scholar, and much, much more. Join us for an action packed hour as we discuss how to be prepared for a crisis, why the best way to bring a product to market is NOT a corporation, and the pros and cons of Libertarianism. He is one multifaceted, fascinating dude. Check out his Web site for more info: http://re.silience.com/
"The social cleansing of London to release land value – reported in New Start in 2009 – has accelerated in recent years as social housing is sold off. The high profile campaign by the E15 campaigners in Newham shows the power of resistance but our commentators argue that without land reform, inequalities will continue.
Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a 501(c) (3) organization that seeks to empower millions of people around the world by creating all the machinery and systems required to build a society from the ground up, while putting the costs within reach of the average person. In most cases, the costs of OSE’s machines are about 20% of similar machinery that is currently available off-shelf. Unlike the equipment available on the market today, the OSE machines are designed and built for a lifetime, by using commonly available parts, which may also be produced locally using the GVCS fabrication machinery.
Tucked down into the southeast corner of Tennessee, Chattanooga is, perhaps, the most unassuming city in the Volunteer State. Though it doesn't have the musical legacies of Nashville or Memphis, or the University of Tennessee like Knoxville, what Chattanooga's 170,000 residents do share is the fastest Internet speeds in the United States. That's right: Chattanooga is the first Western Hemisphere city running a one-gigabit-per-second fiber Internet service. It's 200 times faster than the national average and has earned Chattanooga its nickname, Gig City, along with a seat at the grown-up table.
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