(Jon) While we await some architects to respond to the last post and show off some neighbor-friendly modern housing that’s isn’t a throwback to the Victorian era, here’s an idea from the past — the 1971 fab prefab Venturo: The advertising pitch, from Treehugger.com: “A lake, land and sea, a beautiful valley, incomparably compatible settings [...]
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New Urbanism blooms in Bloomington
by Jon Swerens on January 17, 2008, in Architecture, Urbanism
(Jon) A big hat tip to Urban Indy for this: As a new development in central Bloomington shows, New Urbanism in many ways is just the old urbanism. This is from a story in the Indianapolis Business Journal about how new housing is being built to blend in with the existing neighborhood around it: “The [...]
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