Best Foot Forward: Public/Social Housing In The 15-Minute City
The concept of a '15-minute city' is having a long moment of world-wide appreciation If you haven't yet focused upon 15-minute cities, here's an easy-reading description of how walking...
A Prescription For Heat Pump Programs In The United Kingdom
It's no wonder that uptake on heat pumps in the United Kingdom has been so much lower than its close neighbours.
In northern climates, houses need to be adequately insulated...
Green With Envy: Futuristic Benefits To Cities Elevate Citizens Unequally
Modernizing cities! Out with the obviously dirty, depressingly ugly, cough-inducing, environmentally-damaging old. In with the sylvan new: vegetative proliferation, babbling brooks, micro-forest canopies, peddle-mobility, awardable aesthetic standards, puffed and...
Glasgow’s Changing World, Zeal To Knock Down Existing Social Housing Continues
In spite of clear evidence that some or all knocked down social housing is never replaced in redevelopments...Try: The Life And Death Cabrini-Green Public Housing Projects, 25 Years On
In...
Is There Such A Thing As Mindless Urban Development? Apparently
We were hiking industriously along a country dirt road a good hour's drive outside of 5th most populated urban conglomerate in North America (or 4th or 6th, no matter)....
Breathing Health: Colorblind For All The Wrong Reasons
"You are what you eat" is a well known phrase that ties human well-being to healthy food. The deterioration of America's public housing in particular has added another important...
Is EnerPHit the Future of Affordable Housing?
Can affordable housing high rises serve the needs of low-income people and cut carbon dioxide emissions at the same time — all at a competitive cost? Let's look at...
Affordable Housing For All? Denmark Shows Only Voters Can Make It Happen
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
a fragment of a William Butler Yeats poem, The Second Coming
Representative democracies would seem to be...
Does Paris Have A Method For U.S. Public Housing Madness?
The United States is gradually waking up to the fact that it has profoundly neglected the upkeep of its public housing. This hasn't mattered under several decades of neoliberal...
France Plans Targets For Using Natural Materials In Public Buildings
A 15 unit public housing project in Paris's 18th arrondissement is catching the attention of architectural magazines. The building, which is built with hempcrete insulation, rises no higher than...
A Tug Of War Between The Affordable Housing Crisis And The Climate Crisis
The demolition of Cabrini Green — public housing units in that were home to 15,000 people in Chicago — is the starting point of this article in Salon about...
Up In Smoke: Current Fate of UK Proposals For Cannabis Construction
Insulation? It doesn't have to be a manufactured product. It can be grown. Seaweed insulation made from shallow water eel grass once provided an excellent quality of insulation, gathered...
Activists: EU Must Pursue Green Building Solutions Without Creating More Homeless
Homelessness in the EU has increased dramatically over the past ten years. The numbers are expected to rise as post-pandemic evictions put those out on the streets who have...
Can Existing Social Housing Go ‘Green’ One Baby Step At A Time?
A local article from a Welsh newspaper paints in one corner of an enormous issue: 'decarbonization' of United Kingdom's social housing.
Viewed from America, decarbonization or greening, or energy efficiency,...
The Many Colours Of NIMBY: The Call Of The Wild
For those determined to man the neighbourhood battlements against change, any and all weapons are used to stave off development plans which alter the 'neighbourhood character.'
For The Birds: California Union Lawsuit To Prevent Human Housing
On one hand are environmentalists concerned with planet's decaying health. On the other, an ever-swelling world population that requires shelter. The clash is inevitable.
Environmentalists focus on human activity that...
