Residential
Ten office buildings push the sustainable design envelope.
Methods that the federal government used successfully in the 1970s and more recently in dealing with country’s banking crises could help equitably resolve today’s crisis of underwater mortgages and foreclosures.
Deep in Hong Kong’s core, 17 floors of a run-down building full of transients provide a key to understanding globalization from the bottom up. Gordon Mathews’s new book paints a detailed portrait of life in and around Chungking Mansions.
Could apartments one-fifth the size of what is now typical in New York City be a viable solution to the city’s notorious lack of affordability?
Capitalizing on an old warehouse district helped turn around a downtown.
The outlook among the more than three dozen contributors to the semiannual ULI Consensus Forecast, released September 26, is that the commercial markets will not do as well in the coming three years as was thought in March, when the initial ULI forecast was published. For housing, however, forecasters are even more optimistic than they were six months ago.
Donating underused land could be key to building workforce housing—and kicking off a construction rebound.
Much has been said about how cities must lead on sustainability and climate change when national governments have not. But they must lead from the other direction as well because smaller communities and the suburbs around them don’t have the resources to leverage affordable green solutions.
Generation Y and Boomers are both challenging assumptions about the primacy of suburban homeownership. More than ever, renters and homebuyers are focusing on a sense of place and amenities rather than on the size of their homes.
The housing industry will continue to improve gradually over the next year, following three years of stagnation, with the recovery fueled primarily by strong activity in individual markets scattered across the country.