Tag: affordability
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Ann Arbor Tackles Affordability and Leverages City Owned Sites
The city of Ann Arbor and the Ann Arbor Housing Commission enlisted Ideas and Action to Analyze city owned sites suitable for added density, affordable housing and mixed income/mixed use development. Findings were incorporated into a series of city council resolutions to move the process of development and/or engagement forward.…
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RE: Housing Conference Surfaces Best Practices in Detroit and Beyond
Re: Housing: Detroit, a symposium held in Detroit and Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan, convened innovators and researchers across the academy, real estate, architecture, planning, housing advocacy, and the city of Detroit in pursuit of real solutions to Detroit’s “Missing Middle” density housing. Full conference can be viewed…
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Reframing Housing Development and Reducing the Cost of Development
REFRAMING HOUSING DEVELOPMENT: HOW CHANGES IN DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND REGULATION COULD REDUCE THE COST OF HOUSING What can be done to reduce the cost of housing, particularly in the United States? A half-day event for practitioners, scholars, policymakers, and others delved into this question. Convened by the Harvard GSD and…
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Designing Affordability Moves to Shenzhen
Designing Affordability continues its run with panels included as part of the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture in Shenzhen. With the theme, “Cities Grow in Difference,” the exhibition is aligned with the intent of the exposition by highlighting innovative techniques for creating affordability from around the world. The Biennale bills…
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Friendship Court Master Plan Draft Released
Friendship Court, a 150 unit development in Charlottesville, VA is undergoing a master planning process to create mixed income development on the site while not displacing existing residents, better connecting the site to its surrounding context and creating opportunity for the families currently on-site. A design team consisting of nationally known…
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Designing Affordability Exhibition Travels to Sydney
Designing Affordability, an exhibition on innovative approaches to efficient design and affordability opened in Sydney Australia on October 6, 2016 and ran through November of 2016 at Tin Sheds Gallery. With generous support from Urban Growth NSW and the University of Sydney the exhibition which debuted at the Center for…
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Immanent Urbanisms Lecture Series Winter 2016
A SERIES OF DISCUSSIONS AND TALKS ABOUT HOW BOTTOM-UP URBANISM IS REMAKING THE LANDSCAPES OF DESIGN, POWER AND ECONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY (see the full schedule of lectures here) Kick off is Tuesday, Jan 26th, 2016 7:30 pm at THE RED VICTORIAN, 1665 Haight St. San Francisco, CA 94117 with MARC NORMAN – DESIGNING AFFORDABILITY:…
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Metropolis Magazine Covers Designing Affordability Exhibition
Metropolis Magazine covers the Designing Affordability Exhibition at the Center for Architecture
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Oculus Fall 2015 Home Game: Winning with Housing
I am honored to be included in the Fall Issue of Oculus Magazine, a publication of the AIA New York Chapter. The issue, ” Home Game: Winning with Housing,” focuses specifically on housing that supports a population needed for the city to grow economically, culturally, sustainably – and equitably. A big…
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Designing Affordability – Exhibition October 1, 2015 – January 16, 2016
October 1, 2015 – January 16, 2016 The Center for Architecture – 536 LaGuardia Place, NY, NY 10012 Designing Affordability: Quicker, Smarter, More Efficient Housing Now Designing Affordability examines the ways in which architects, engineers, planners, policy makers and ordinary citizens are creating innovative ways to reduce the cost of housing, increase…