Over the weekend, SCI-Arc held its Other New Urbanisms Symposium, an ongoing discussion meant to spur new ideas in terms of urban living (the last one looked at fantastical transit options). While a list of all the winners is scrounged up, here’s a look at one of the entrants from last year (the second place winner)* via Urban Insights LA: “The Fletcher Studio, which won second place, proposed urban agricultural villages that would convert freeway embankments into terraced hillsides. Affiliated bungalow housing would be built alongside. These developments would be a new source of “green” jobs, employing farmers on a rotating, seasonal basis. Fletcher calculated that along LA’s 527 miles of freeway, there are approximately 960 acres of largely unused land that could be reclaimed as a productive landscape.” Looks good, but Supervisor Gloria Molina is gonna freak about the lack of safety gates. UPDATE*: This new project is from a second place winner from last year.
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The “surge” in home sales is over for the time being. And like auto sales, the next few months are going to be an absolute bloodbath. The NAR knows this, which is why they, and other real estate hacks are desperately pushing for the credit to not only be extended, but to be expanded to $15K … ““I often get told that I’m overqualified,” said Barbara Brooks, 71, who retired in 2003 after 30 years as an administrative assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles. …
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