Deluxe Suburban Refuge w/ Pool & Storage
In a previous post I tried to devise an ICF suburban home suited to the urbanite seeking suburban refuge. In this post I develop a new...
Refuge In Suburbia
A constellation of factors is driving people out of cities and into the suburbs. At the same time the old 'builder' produced 'luxury'...
Post Covid Pod
With the arrival of the Covid crisis, the work-from-home employment model is displacing the work-at-office model. The real estate...
Clubs As Alternatives To Apartments ?
The whole theory of the modern mega-apartment complex is 'radically unsound' to paraphrase the great Irish bard. The time has come...
Was the Larkin Building the first RDBMS ?
The Larkin Soap Company was founded in 1875 by John D Larkin. Like Sears & Roebuck, mail order stores preceded the department store. ...
How Could Covid Rework The Workplace?
Winds in the east, mist coming in, Like somethin' is brewin' and 'bout to begin. Can't put me finger on what lies in store, But I feel...
The Post Covid Office
Geoffrey James looks to the time after the Covid crisis subsides in his latest article at Inc.com. Of particular interest is his...
Affordable Multifamily Housing
VRT has created an affordable housing plan for an individual or couple the elemental feature of which is a micro-apartment 'duplex', two...
Bourgeoisifying The Boarding House
The boarding house seems to have been around since the beginning of recorded history, a mode of habitation which worked quite well,...
Micro Homeless Shelter
New York City supposedly spends some Two Billion dollars per year housing some 75,000 homeless people - or around $ 25,000 per person. A...
