Should Building Taller Be Much, Much Easier? In early December, the city council of Austin, Texas, adopted an exhaustive downtown plan that will guide every element of the neighborhood’s transformation over the next 25 years, from its historic preservation policies to investments in workforce housing to parking and transit infrastructure. Amid all of those potentially touchy topics, though, the loudest row grew out of one program sketched on just five pages of the full 183-page document. via architecturelab:

Should Building Taller Be Much, Much Easier?

In early December, the city council of Austin, Texas, adopted an exhaustive downtown plan that will guide every element of the neighborhood’s transformation over the next 25 years, from its historic preservation policies to investments in workforce housing to parking and transit infrastructure. Amid all of those potentially touchy topics, though, the loudest row grew out of one program sketched on just five pages of the full 183-page document.

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Hannah Dobbz, a writer, filmmaker and activist, has been living in squats on and off for years. She’s based in Pittsburgh, where there are plenty of empty buildings and just as many people ready to fill them. She looks at the housing crisis and sees a solution so utterly logical it kinda hurts: Put the homeless people in the empty houses. But of course that isn’t the kind of world we live in. So Hannah and her cohorts have taken it upon themselves to change things, by educating people and opening a dialogue about housing. Hannah’s currently raising money for a book to examine squatting and the history of housing rights (via Shareable: Hannah Dobbz, Squatterati)

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urbanfoodproduction: Golden Dream Bay, a residential and retail complex in Qinhuangdao, China, a city of 2.8 million located 300 km east of Beijing. Building upon Moshe Safdie’s groundbreaking Habitat, the project offers a radical solution for quality, affordable housing in a heavily populated urban area.

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Golden Dream Bay, a residential and retail complex in Qinhuangdao, China, a city of 2.8 million located 300 km east of Beijing. Building upon Moshe Safdie’s groundbreaking Habitat, the project offers a radical solution for quality, affordable housing in a heavily populated urban area.

(via edificecomplex)

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