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Demapping Automotive Landscapes: Affordability as a Land Game
Author(s) -
Norman Marc
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2318
Subject(s) - exhibition , zoning , legislature , architecture , affordable housing , modular design , law , architectural engineering , engineering , civil engineering , computer science , political science , history , archaeology , operating system
One of the biggest challenges to affordable housing provision is the level of parking space that zoning laws demand for new developments. It makes land costs prohibitive, and pushes new dwellings out to peripheral locations. Marc Norman – founder of the community development consultancy Ideas and Action, and associate professor of practice at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning – recently curated an exhibition at New York's Center for Architecture titled ‘Designing Affordability: Quicker, Smarter, More Efficient Housing Now’. Here he presents initiatives around the world, from legislative change to clever modular architectural design, that offer ways of redressing the balance between car and community.