Joan Mooney

Joan Mooney is a longtime writer and editor who for many years was senior editor of AutoExec, the magazine of the National Automobile Dealers Association. As a freelancer, she has written about such diverse topics as the resurgence of streetcars for On Common Ground magazine, the suburbanization of poverty for Urban Land, recumbent trikes for the AARP Bulletin and water infrastructure and supply for the National Association of Realtors.

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Design and Planning
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Community and Neighborhood Development
Better Approaches Needed for Rapid Rehousing after Disasters
As urbanization spreads, natural disasters are increasingly happening in urban areas. That means “the unit is not the household anymore,” said Mario Flores, director of disaster response field operations at Habitat for Humanity, speaking at a panel at the National Building Museum in D.C. “We need to look at the entire neighborhood, by block, by city.”
August 20, 2015
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Joan Mooney
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Economy, Market & Trends
Confronting the Rise of Suburban Poverty
The “typical” suburban family with two parents and 2.5 children is long gone—if it ever existed. Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, a new book from the Brookings Institution, debunks another myth about the suburbs—that of suburban prosperity: there are now more people living in poverty in the suburbs than in downtown areas.
September 6, 2013
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Joan Mooney
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Design and Planning
“Innovation Districts” Boosting Bottom Line for Cities
Where others have failed, triangle-based modular wood structures may achieve manufacturing economies for commercial and residential uses.
August 5, 2013
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Residential
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Infrastructure
Housing America’s Graying Population
Housing will be the biggest challenge for the coming wave of aging baby boomers, said speakers at a recent Atlantic forum in Washington, D.C.. With neither adequate zoning nor a sufficient stock of “age-appropriate” housing, America is not prepared for the predicted surge in the number of senior citizens, panelists said.
June 3, 2013
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Joan Mooney
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Residential
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Infrastructure
Home Values Near Transit Outperform
Homes near public transit retained their value better during the recession than their counterparts in auto-dependent areas, according to a recent study. What’s impressive is the extent of it: In five metropolitan areas, residential property values performed 42 percent better on average.
May 7, 2013
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Joan Mooney
Design and Planning
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Residential
Designing for an Aging Population
“The attributes of the single-family house are becoming obstacles to aging in place well,” with the distance from shops and services and the lack of walkability, said Ellen Dunham Jones, architecture professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “We need to link the needs of the aging population with dead big-box stores and dying malls.”
May 16, 2012
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Joan Mooney
Development and Construction
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Adaptive Use and Building Reuse
Preparing for an Aging Population
The aging of American society is not a transitory phenomenon caused by baby boomers, said Jack Rowe, professor of health policy management at Columbia University, in a recent conference at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. “It’s a permanent structural change induced by greater longevity.” Core U.S. institutions, including housing, “are not engineered for the society we’re going to have,” he said.
May 15, 2012
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