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Is a green-built home in a sea of suburbia truly sustainable?
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Various reports indicate that construction activity will soften through 2009.
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Any housing venture that promotes public transportation in auto-choked L.A. deserves props; this infill project meets that objective and more.
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This mixed-use project provides affordable housing for seniors in a new neighborhood adjacent to San Francisco's South of Market area. It is the first building in the country to allot a specific percentage of the residential units for seniors living with AIDS, says architect Tom Brutting. The...
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Herryford Village was intended to be the same as hundreds of other neighborhoods Clark Realty Builders has developed with Torti Gallas and Partners on military installations across the country. But when an environmental impact study showed that several acres on the original site were unavailable...
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As one of the nation's most revered bastions of colonial architecture, D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood is not known for being structurally avant-garde. Except in the case of this boutique mixed-use project, which honors historic precedent and then crowns it with what architect Mark McInturff calls a...
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In contrast to the sterile strip malls marooned on asphalt islands across the country, The Glen Town Center remembers a more graceful era of downtown shopping districts, one in which houses, department stores, theaters, and greenswards commingle to create an enticing sense of place.
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The old affordable-housing model is being thrown out as thoughtfully designed homes for low-income families are fast replacing the drab, concrete boxes of the 1960s and 1970s. Douglass Square reflects that shift.
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Project Of The Year
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Brett and MaryAlice Hawkins arrived in Los Alamos, N.M., from Vermont via Papua New Guinea after a two-year stint in the Peace Corps. Both teachers, they qualified for special financing at Pi-on Trails, a mixed-income subdivision with an affordable component developed by the Los Alamos Housing...
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In this world of cookie-cutter projects and look-alike communities, it's hard to claim the mantle of first. But each of the three mixed-use projects profiled here can make legitimate claims to being unique. Club Casa Mina is the first private-equity residence club—a fractional—to hit Santa Barbara...
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Mixed-use projects were not among the original six categories offered when we introduced the Builder's Choice competition to the residential design world in 1981, but by the mid-1990s the concept was catching on, and by the turn of the last century it had reached the mainstream, prompting us to add...
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WHEN TRANSIT PLANNERS DESIGNED Washington's subway system, called Metro, almost 40 years ago, they envisioned a system that would spur development around its stations. In many areas in Maryland and Northern Virginia, that's happened.
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By Lisa Marquis Jackson. When the city of Santa Ana, Calif., submitted a request for proposals to turn a three-block infill site with a vacant office building and community parking lot into a revitalized mixed-use area, it was The Olson Company, based in Seal Beach, Calif., which presented a unique...
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By Lisa Marquis Jackson. With its European heritage, mixed use has been a way of life in many countries for generations. While many people simplify the term "mixed use" to mean residential and commercial together, Randal Jackson, president and chairman of The Planning Center, based in Costa Mesa...
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As the TND process evolves, compromises--or hybrid communities--will have to be built. "Many builders feel they have to cave on one or two things," admits Speck, "but though they might achieve a certain bonus in the marketplace by providing the TND look, the true large-scale gains that one accrues...
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Orenco Station is a thriving, mixed-use pocket of suburbia, an urban-style utopia on the outskirts of Portland in Hillsboro, Ore. Residential neighborhoods in most of the still-evolving, 200-acre community are less than half a mile from the light-rail station, which links Hillsboro with downtown...