THE BUILT ENVIRONMENTALIST
Built Environmentalist (2024);
conversations about community structure through the lense of architecture, infrastructure, landscape, and policy.
*podcast recordings coming winter 2023/2024
In an era of ever increasing construction budgets and ever increasing climate uncertainty, is there a way to develop, design, and built that is in integrity with our home,
with this Earth?
...01 there is no housing crisis*
...02 there is plenty of housing stock in america. there are new homes being built every day yet we do not have an expontential increase population in this country. we deny people wanting to enter, and the current childbearing generations are replacing the population with thier own offspring on demisisioning returns. so how could it be, then? how could there be a is a “housing shortage” when quanties increase but deman decreases?
...03 hoarding and gorging
...03. ifew people own many homes.
...03.2 there are tax incentives for people with multiple homes *
...03.3 there are thousands of empty buildings; commercial, residential, multidewling, apartments, homes in cities and neighborhoods across the country.**
..03.4 it is cheaper for landlords to not fill apartments**
...04 there should be (taxes, penalties, consequences to aid the collective) on (landloards, property owners mortgage lenders) who have vacancies.
...05 but youre an “architect:” this could reduce rates of building and construction.
...this is the goal... build less, better. build more by doing
a. people dont “like” “new” “buildings”
b. people like spaces that are fresh, clean, health, nature, full of happiness, safety for harm and from malice.
-why neighbors and highways are laid out the way they are: histories of redlining
-why our homes look the way they do in the place they do
-coral is the architect of the sea and what that means for land
- contemporary tourist imperialism and the impacts on natural systems: hawaii
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