How Pocket Hoods that work like villages boost people’s wellbeing by Kirsten Dirksen on May 8, 2022 From agile neighborhoods for veterans or the unhoused to pocket hoods for Portlanders, the dozens of co-housing villages designed by …
LA tests Dutch/Japanese pocket communities. Skeptics like it by Kirsten Dirksen on November 15, 2021 When Barbara Bestor was tasked with turning 5 mostly-abandoned lots into 18 homes in LA’s Echo Park, she knew the …
Can backyard tiny homes solve CA’s affordable housing need? by Kirsten Dirksen on March 24, 2019 Looking for a local solution to the California housing shortage, Clovis city planners bypassed legalizing tiny houses on wheels for …
Writer builds backyard mountain cottage as personal space by Kirsten Dirksen on July 22, 2015 As top cities become pricey and competitive, smaller yet vibrant cities attract those in search of more than work. Crissie …
Urbanismo futuro: táctico, adaptable y atento a gente/tierra by Nicolás Boullosa on July 25, 2014 Desde Futurama, la exposición curada por Norman Bel Geddes sobre la ciudad del futuro en la Exposición Universal de Nueva …
Converted garage as income-earning small home in exurban LA by Kirsten Dirksen on June 2, 2014 When Chris Aune bought his home in Lancaster, California, he was looking for a place for just himself and his …
Brick & mortar frontier town bank becomes NorCal downtown home by Kirsten Dirksen on August 18, 2013 When Bert Crews was looking for a home in the tiny frontier-style town of Tomales, California, it just happened to …
Intentionally small home: urban living in North Carolina by Kirsten Dirksen on June 10, 2013 Nicole Alvarez grew up in a typical American suburbia: spacious homes, large yards, not walkable to town. Then she began …
The comeback of America's cities & growing walkable suburbs by Kirsten Dirksen on April 15, 2010 We’ve become a city planet (Stewart Brand’s term)- in 2008, for the first time over half of the world’s population …
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 …
