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Federal Reserve announces nationwide Land Bank
DHIRU THADANI    APR. 1, 2022 The Federal Reserve this morning announced that all vacant and underutilized properties in towns and cities across America will be placed in a nationwide Land Bank, for bid to those wishing to build affordable housing. Community developers, builders, municipalities, and individuals will be eligible to draw land from the bank if they have plans that include permanently affordable housing.
Securing the Capitol gracefully
DHIRU THADANI    MAR. 3, 2021 The United States Capitol deserves to be protected in a manner commensurate with its historic place in the country’s history. It is a magnificent building degraded in recent times with a stark security fence topped by concertina wire. Throughout history, fences with limited access gates have protected treasured buildings the world over. The design of these fences often derives some aspect of character, care, and style from the buildings they protect.
When London’s Dragons Ruled Before Skyscrapers
Courtesy of Dhiru Thadani Historically, property boundaries were generally demarcated by a physical object, either by a boundary marker or a fence to visually communicate the edges of land ownership. These were human impositions that represented a cultural, political, and social meaning upon a natural environment or within a settled area. In present day, the use of markers for land ownership has largely been replaced by maps and land-title registration.
Notable Design Books of 2013: September Book Reviews
Like the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart where leading modernist architects built houses in 1927, or new towns of the 1930s like Radburn, New Jersey, the new town of Seaside, Florida, became famous as a subject of architectural discussion almost before it became a physical reality. A pioneer design of the so-called New Urbanism, Seaside was built beginning in 1981 by Robert Davis, a visionary developer, who inherited the land in the Florida panhandle where the town rose.
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