PREFACE:
Now that we are three years into one of the worst housing downturns in U.S.history, what will the impact of this crisis be on the design professions, public policy-making, real estate markets, and international urbanism? How will today’s housing market create new challenges and opportunities for connecting planning and policy, academics and practice? How will a heightened awareness regarding sustainability and resource constraints shape the future of the residential built environment?
“[We’re] part of this effort to rebuild our society in a way that pays attention to [green building and environmental care] so that the buildings that we put up, so that the food we eat, so that the way we move ourselves around does not contribute to ...the calamity of the planet, but the other way around.” Steve Curwood of the USGBC U.S.Green Building Council
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