The Costco of housing is…Costco?
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The future of land use and incremental development
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Evaluating the significance of San Lorenzo Village, a mid-20th century suburban community
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A radical fix for Britain’s housing crisis: A new offshore city
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Arlington Virginia missing middle trial heralds legal fight over suburban zoning
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A Colorado factory is making homes that are indistinguishable from traditionally built ones — and chipping away at the housing crisis
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Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles
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The methodical plan to erase Chicago
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Muji has a prescription for the loneliness epidemic in Japan
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What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses: it’s not a housing crisis — it’s a planning crisis
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Berkeley's upzoning would be among America's largest
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Why we can’t build family-sized apartments in North America
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The case for American single-stair multifamily
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The old new way to provide cheap housing
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Not your grandma’s granny flat: How San Diego hacked state housing law to build ADU ‘apartment buildings’
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Joe Biden administration offers $35 billion in low-interest loans to support US transit-oriented development
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Can NYC ease housing costs with ‘City of Yes’ proposal?
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Exposed: Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people.
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So you want to turn an office building into a home?
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Architects trying to make Denmark carbon-neutral – Copenhagen hosts 2023 World Congress of Architects, displaying experimental structures that could decarbonise housing
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Munger Hall: A billionaire's bizarre social experiment
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In defense of Shattuck: Housing in downtown Berkeley
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So you want to turn an office building into a home?
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Some Californian cities to lose zoning powers in two days
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Megacities: Reality or fiction? Architecture in sci-fi.
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Inside one of Japan's tiniest houses
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A Twitter thread on Alfred Loos, one of the founders of modern architecture, and why modern housing looks so plain
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Gothenburg is on a $100bn building spree
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Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed Icelandic homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments
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Inside Toronto's skyscraper boom
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Why people thought steel houses were a good idea
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Suburbia is subsidized - [Strong Towns Ep7]
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Why everywhere in the US is starting to look the same
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Disney to build a branded community promising “magic” in the California desert
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Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row is half empty
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Architect resigns in protest over UCSB mega-dorm
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Housing in Alaska can’t survive climate change. This group is trying a new model.
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Why Britain's newbuilds are so ugly
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Want to get rid of San Francisco's most toxic monument to racism and segregation? End single-family zoning.
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Plans for an artificial island to house 35,000 people and protect the port of Copenhagen from rising sea levels have been approved by Danish MPs
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Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties
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Swedish officials have joined Danish critics in registering concerns that an island-building plan, a signature test of Copenhagen's development model, could have risks
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Google submits plans to build 7,000 homes in North Bayshore, the largest project in city's history
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The downside to life in a supertall tower: Leaks, creaks, breaks
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The case against single family zoning
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How did Soviet planners design the Union's cities?
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How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century
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Why we don't like our underground house
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Denmark’s 300-year-old homes of the future – thatched with a seaweed that has the potential to be a contemporary building material
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What life indoors looks like in Tokyo’s cramped homes
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