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Growing housing supply gap will worsen affordability crisis

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A sharp increase in the housing supply gap is projected to worsen the affordability crisis, particularly for the disadvantaged, over the next year. The gap will reach 4.5 million units in 2022, up from 2.5 million in 2018, according to a CoreLogic Public Policy Executive. This will be a crisis for those who earn less than half of what their neighbors do.

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1989 | Berlin

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In the context of 11th week’s ARCH484 course, we have discussed Berlin and the issue of “Erasing the Urban Boundary” that took place after World War II in Nazi Germany. Dualities existed in terms of its regimen and this had also been seen in the urban typology of Germany and Berlin. After the impacts of the war, the reconstruction process had started and also in that phase two different ideologies had emerged.

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A Philadelphia suburb sees its future in a municipal campus with an expanded courthouse

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Ground broke today on the largest project that Montgomery County in Pennsylvania has undertaken to date: a 508,150-sf campus in the Philadelphia suburb of Norristown, Pa., that, when completed in 2026, will include the construction of the 330,000-sf, six-story Montgomery County Justice Center.

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The Terrestrial Status of Boston

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The terrestrial status of Boston is an unexpectedly fascinating topic. A city built on land rescued from the sea, it is not only unusually at risk from sea-level rise; it also hides parts of its marshy past beneath its streets and buildings. As a project by the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center recently wrote, “No city in the U.S. has a more striking history of landmaking than Boston, with about a sixth of its present land area sitting on estuaries, mudflats, coves, and tidal basin

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Architectural Visualization Trends and the Rise of AI

A new industry study conducted by Architizer on behalf of Chaos Enscape surveyed 2,139 design professionals to understand the state of architectural visualization and what to expect in the near future. We asked: How are visualizations produced in your firm? What impact does real-time rendering have? What approach are you taking toward the rise of AI?

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Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial set to break ground

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SWA Group has recently announced the approval of The Clearing, the firm’s design for the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial. The design was selected unanimously by the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission among 189 international design submissions.

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