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Author: Diane R. Suchman
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn how to develop profitable, market-rate infill housing in urban and inner-ring suburban areas. This book explains how to find and take advantage of opportunities and overcome obstacles.
Author: Peggy Tully
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2013-06-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781616891091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern American Housing brings together the most enlightened thinkers from the worlds of architecture, social practice, and real estate development to present the latest developments in the design and construction of new housing stock in re-urbanizing cities throughout the United States. New housing is grouped into three sections—housing towers, reused historical structures, and urban infill—and documented with photographs, pre-construction renderings, floor plans, and maps indicating location in urban settings. An accompanying essay and a discussion with urban planners, architects, and policymakers round out this fresh look at the past and future of the American house.
Author: Randy Palazzo
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-05-31
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781071129968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMINING FOR URBAN INFILL LOTS, THE NEW GOLD! HOW TO BUILD WEALTH LOCATING THESE POCKET GOLD MINES.I started working in the urban areas of Portland Oregon in 1988, back when most neighborhoods close to the City core were in extreme disrepair and chaos. This book will serve to teach you how I made millions splitting infill lots. Urban Infill is defined as "filling in the gaps" in already established, older, existing neighborhoods close to a City core. Splitting these historically platted lots just requires simple administrative paperwork and generally takes 1 to 4 weeks. I also teach you how to quickly and easily build a new home on any infill lot. 99% of the general public has no idea what historically platted lots are, and because of that, there is very little competition in what I do, and what I can teach you at www.urbaninfill.com. Unlike the "fix and flip guru's, that teach you how to buy homes, fix and flip, we have very little competition. Fix and Flips have so much competition these days that it is hard to find a good deal. I think most will agree. However, what I can teach you is what I term "the new gold"! Sifting through these neighborhoods and knowing how to locate these lots, and split them off, and possibly building the new home can lead you to life-changing financial success. Also, I can teach you how to easily build a new home in 25 simple steps. Building a new home is much easier than most renovations of older homes, and in many cases, costs less. It is also much easier to budget a new home because there are rarely any surprises. For some reason, most people think building a new home is difficu
Author: Steven Fader
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the design and development of 14 denser than typical projects that range from single-family subdivisions to downtown high-rise apartments, illustrating new urbanism, transit-oriented development, mixed-income and mixed-use housing types, urban infill, and adaptive use.
Author: Daniel G. Parolek
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2020-07-14
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1642830542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWII, auto-centric, single-family-development model no longer meets the needs of residents. Urban areas in the US are experiencing dramatically shifting household and cultural demographics and a growing demand for walkable urban living. Missing Middle Housing, a term coined by Daniel Parolek, describes the walkable, desirable, yet attainable housing that many people across the country are struggling to find. Missing Middle Housing types—such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts—can provide options along a spectrum of affordability. In Missing Middle Housing, Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of these housing types to meet today’s diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing. The book demonstrates why more developers should be building Missing Middle Housing and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable it to be built. Case studies of built projects show what is possible, from the Prairie Queen Neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska to the Sonoma Wildfire Cottages, in California. A chapter from urban scholar Arthur C. Nelson uses data analysis to highlight the urgency to deliver Missing Middle Housing. Parolek proves that density is too blunt of an instrument to effectively regulate for twenty-first-century housing needs. Complete industries and systems will have to be rethought to help deliver the broad range of Missing Middle Housing needed to meet the demand, as this book shows. Whether you are a planner, architect, builder, or city leader, Missing Middle Housing will help you think differently about how to address housing needs for today’s communities.
Author: Peter G. Rowe
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2014-08-20
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 303821101X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiversity and density in housing today Accomodation of diversity and the creation of urban density are a focus of world-wide building and planning activities today. This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that it is a specific quality, urban intensity, which determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are created. Comparisons with historical models and critical appraisals based on the authors’ unique standing give ample information on the pros and cons of major types of housing, their pitfalls and successful examples. Newly created sets of drawings, from floor plans to spectacular 3D aerial views of the buildings in their urban contexts, accompany each of the more than twenty case studies that are described and analyzed in detail. The approach taken here relates to many pressing issues in contemporary housing, including the avoidance of urban sprawl, the revival of city centers and the ongoing search for innovative housing types. A qualitative approach to diversity and density in housing A concept that unites architectural and urban design A wide range of original drawings of benchmark case studies
Author: Hilary French
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1856694542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revised addition to the Living In series shows and describes the gardens, boulevards, museums, monuments, and parks of Paris, and includes interiors of homes decorated in various styles.
Author: Katy Chey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-06
Total Pages: 547
ISBN-13: 1317279751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day. It emphasises the importance of understanding the direct connection between housing and dwelling in the context of a city, and the manner in which the city is an instructional indication of how a housing typology is embodied. The case studies presented offer an insight into why a certain housing type flourished in a specific city and the variety span across cities in the world where distinct housing types have prevailed. It also pursues how housing types developed, evolved, and helped define the city, looks into how dwellers inhabited their dwellings, and analyses how the housing typologies correlates in a contemporary context. The typologies studied are back-to-backs in Birmingham; tenements in London; Haussmann Apartment in Paris; tenements in New York; tong lau in Hong Kong; perimeter block, linear block, and block-edge in Berlin; perimeter block and solitaire in Amsterdam; space-enclosing structure in Beijing; micro house in Tokyo, and high-rise in Toronto.
Author: Nancy Brooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-01-12
Total Pages: 1027
ISBN-13: 0195380622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning. The authors focus on the interface between these two subdisciplines that have historically had an uneasy relationship. Although economists were among the early contributors to the literature on urban planning, many economists have been dismissive of a discipline whose leading scholars frequently favor regulations over market institutions, equity over efficiency, and normative prescriptions over positive analysis. Planners, meanwhile, even as they draw upon economic principles, often view the work of economists as abstract, not sensitive to institutional contexts, and communicated in a formal language spoken by few with decision making authority. Not surprisingly, papers in the leading economic journals rarely cite clearly pertinent papers in planning journals, and vice versa. Despite the historical divergence in perspectives and methods, urban economics and urban planning share an intense interest in many topic areas: the nature of cities, the prosperity of urban economies, the efficient provision of urban services, efficient systems of transportation, and the proper allocation of land between urban and environmental uses. In bridging this gap, the book highlights the best scholarship in planning and economics that address the most pressing urban problems of our day and stimulates further dialog between scholars in urban planning and urban economics.
Author: Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1119564816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
