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Housing for All(From Metropolis by S. Szenasy).(Img:Moto nobu Kurokawa's proposal for Manhattan was awarded an Honorable Mention.)
Suddenly everyone is talking about affordable housing-the pent-up need for it, the new forms it should take, and how to realize the inventive schemes surfacing through competitions and exhibitions.
The National Building Museum's show opened in mid-February with the promising title Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset (through August 8). In preparation for our position paper on housing, the civic group I cochair, Rebuild Downtown Our Town (R.Dot), held a symposium last November on the crucial role housing will play in rebuilding Lower Manhattan. In this effort we were encouraged by Mayor Michael Bloomberg when he said that there's no better way to memorialize th
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