Sentences with phrase «dense urban housing»
Looking to Machiavelli for a way to put some martial arts move on the West, and flip it into dense urban housing, bicycle commuting, and radical decreases in energy consumption may allow the green elite to feel superior.
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The Incredible Edible House's compact 30» x45» footprint (requiring a five - foot setback) is ideal for dense urban landscapes, and its vertical format amplifies its already inherent energy - saving tendencies.
Whether you walk around the Cliff House and Sutro Baths below, or hike through the trail head along Lands End, the views are pretty amazing and seeing nature in the city is a pretty cool experience in spite of being in a dense urban area.
The following documents are part of the final project report on «Cost - effective multi-storey Passive House in dense urban developments».
And more specifically, the Cornell tower takes Passive House to a new, grand scale, and it brings it to one of the world's densest cities, a context that for an increasingly urban world population, will be more and more relevant in the coming years.
By establishing a flexible approach, the ZERO Code is applicable to all new commercial and institutional buildings, and mid - to high - rise housing, including buildings with limited on - site renewable energy generating capacity (e.g. buildings in dense urban environments).
Several cities already promote urban agriculture in floodplains, develop rooftop gardens in dense urban settlements, include urban forestry in new housing schemes and preserve peri-urban greenbelts for local food production.
Based on the goals of «Urban Habitats,» a design competition held in 2005 by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville and the Charlottesville Community Design Center for the redevelopment of a local trailer park, this book frames sixteen design opportunities for affordable, dense, compact, and sustainable housing.
Because the land available for house building is limited, the village combines dense urban living in a rural context.
But it is no substitute for good urban design that gets us out of our cars, denser housing types that can support walkable communities, and better buildings that use less energy in the first place.
Our portfolio is mainly comprised of multi-tenant, Class A office properties located in dense, urban areas or central business districts, mixed - use retail or grocery - anchored centers in high barrier - to - entry locations featuring credit - quality anchors, as well as Class A multifamily properties, including student housing assets, strategically positioned in our target markets and in high - demand locations.
The 80 percent of respondents who indicated they plan to eventually buy a house or apartment contradicts a popular notion that millennial preference for living in dense, walkable urban areas makes home ownership less attractive to this generation.