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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:30:53 +0530
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http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg02635.shtml
Working-Class Housing Complex Will Rise as Part of the Greenery
Published: January 17, 2007
The Bloomberg administration, hoping to inspire more imaginative design
in working-class housing, intends to turn over one of a dwindling number
of large tracts of city-owned land to a development team with an unusual
plan — to build a low- and moderate-income housing complex bound
together by courtyards and roof gardens that would be used for
everything from harvesting rainwater to farming vegetables and fruit.
The proposed project, selected from among five finalists by a jury that
included not only architects but a professor of environmental psychology
and anthropology, would include an outdoor amphitheater, apartments
designed for breezes, a fitness center, wiring for Internet access,
“live-work units” for people who work at home, stoops with photovoltaic
canopies, even a Christmas tree farm.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/nyregion/17housing.html?ex=1172379600&en=1cab56bb38d67bf4&ei=5070