Cuts commute with smaller home in live/work walkable complex by Kirsten Dirksen on June 3, 2013 Stan Leopard used to spend nearly two hours in the car each day commuting from his home in Mill Valley, …
Skinny house in LA: affordable, minimal, modern home/office by Kirsten Dirksen on May 6, 2013 Simon Storey (Anonymous) wanted to buy an affordable home so he bought the smallest and cheapest thing on the market. …
Berkeley’s backyard tiny house helps with income, landscape by Kirsten Dirksen on October 8, 2012 Karen Chapple is a city planning professor so she knows all about the benefits of backyard cottages as urban infill …
Family of 3 amplifies flat with a see-thru mezzanine core by Kirsten Dirksen on September 17, 2012 When Miguel Ángel Borrás and Elodie Grammont bought their apartment in Barcelona’s Eixample district, it was divided into small rooms, …
A lunch on urban (re)generation and in praise of cities by Kirsten Dirksen on April 26, 2010 More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and that number is growing. Even in the U.S., …
Searching for density in a San Francisco exurb by Kirsten Dirksen on November 2, 2009 If Americans all lived like New Yorkers we would be using less than a third of the energy we currently …
Discovering the suburban American Dream outside Barcelona by Kirsten Dirksen on May 6, 2009 I returned to my adolescence this weekend, to a typical upscale American suburb, without even leaving greater Barcelona. Until setting …
