By Marie | August 10, 2010
Digital Media is slowly integrating itself as a part of our daily life with the inception of eye catching and at times entertaining mediums of information. Digital and programming systems are implemented in order to produce a properly functioning urban space rendered with digital media.
Look around and you will surely get an eye full [...]
The first English translation of Lefebvre’s groundbreaking work on the urban experience.
Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a [...]
The latest addition to the digital urban reader contributed book on the Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces comes from Dawid Gorny who has recently moved to Cheltenham Spa.
Wikipedia describes Cheltenham as a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, England, near Gloucester and Cirencester. The town has a population of 110,013 [...]
Rural homes are less affordable than urban ones, with average prices more than seven times the typical local wage, a bank has reported. House price inflation has pushed the average rural property value up to �246,104, which is �30,000 above that of a town house, Halifax said.
Carrick, Cornwall, was deemed the least affordable [...]
I tried living in the country for a while and I have to admit; I take my hats off to those that can do it year in and year out because it isn’t for everyone. I had always been to the country, special trips for school, holidays and vacationing with family, but had never really [...]
By Marie | February 5, 2010
New York – Every time it rained, Majora Carter cringed. “I lived in mortal terror whenever I thought it was going to rain,” Dr. Carter says, remembering how the rainwater seeped from the street into her Bronx brownstone.
Then she and her husband, James Burling Chase, realized [...]
By Marie | December 10, 2009
If you are planning to buy a condominium for yourself or a gift for your future spouse then here are some tips you should consider before purchasing one:
1.) Ask the developer a copy of the floor plan before you check on the actual unit, so that you can choose the design and decide what fits [...]
Mainly because of the loss of so many jobs that is rendering more and more people unable to pay their rent. The economy is a general indicator of the health of the real estates business and with rising jobless people comes a rise in vacancies and people are scrambling to get their empty properties occupied. [...]
There are a lot of new laws that will be set for implementation next year that would have buildings and commercial properties declare their energy efficiency ratings with commensurate penalization rates for those who fail. Buildings are known to be some of the most polluting and least energy efficient structures man has made but greening [...]
In terms of the real estates industry that is, for not much movement in the positive side is almost void. That is except for some areas where local banks have been disposing of properties they have acquired due to foreclosure and bad loans. They might be sales but with a very unpleasant aftertaste, they are [...]