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Why we need a new type of 21st Century house
Photo by Klaus Frahm
TODAY people worry about the soaring cost of buying a home. Tomorrow the big worry could well be the expense of operating one. In the latest TransScan we look at housing's future prospects - the pressures to make housing more affordable and the pressures to make new houses more self-sufficient and better able to cope with a changing climate. It all suggests a need to design a new breed of 21st Century houses to cope with all the changes. You can learn more by downloading the latest edition of TransScan here. here.
Highlights from the journal
- Setting parameters for the next generation of housing
- Floating the family home to beat rising seas
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Do cities need their own ecologists? - An easy way to turn green?
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Building the case for greener climate-friendly homes - Is zero carbon housing really possible?
- Mobile phones are slowing rush hour traffic
- Retraining older drivers will 'cut crashes'
- Why the look of cities is a hot issue
- Is there another way to cut city congestion?
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How Sydney is shipping out traffic - ESC is becoming a high-tech seatbelt
- Finding a safe parking spot
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Measuring what earthquakes do inside buildings - How planning just became a whole lot harder
- Impacts of online shopping
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- Finding an African solution
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- Motorbike riders really are ‘different’
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Using psychology to create better drivers - Budgeting for a warmer future
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- Can the fringe be made less vulnerable?
Do there have to be slums?
Designing for extremes
Perth’s shrunken gardens
