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What Will The Homes Of The Future Really Look Like?

10:42 am in architects, Design & Architecture, james howard kunstler, prefabricated housing, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger

house of the future maynard image Image Credit Andrew Maynard @andrewmaynard tweets about a slideshow of Homes of the Future on CNBC that features his Airdrop House, featured on TreeHugger here. Author Daniel Bukszpan writes:
A quick look outside shows that the home of the future as depicted in films never quite caught on. Contenders are still being built, however. It's just that society's priorities have changed--homes are being designed with an eye toward sus...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Jim Kunstler on The Triumph Of The City: Dream On

11:39 am in Design & Architecture, james howard kunstler, oil dependency, urban design, urban life by TreeHugger

city of future image Image Credit Modern Mechanix Edward Glaeser in Triumph of the City and David Owen in Green Metropolis both posit that the greenest place to live is the big city, and the bigger the better. I have disagreed:
I think that one can have too much density and rely on supply chains for food and water that are too long and too complex. There is a...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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