Better Homes for the Apocalypse
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The city announced 10 winners of a $100,000 open design competition "to generate solutions for post-disaster provisional housing." The premise: a Category 3 hurricane, with 38,000 families left homeless.
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Increased survival sounds like great news. But it may not mean what you think.
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After decades putting up -- and tearing  down -- hundreds of thousands of cheap identikit homes, Britain  is planning a new wave of housebuilding with a major challenge:  to produce communities that last.
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Consumer interest in green construction has continued to grow, but few people can afford to build an environmentally friendly house from the ground up. They don't have to, says architect Kelly Lerner, co-author of "Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House." To find out more about this design...
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Homeowner coverage is no catchall. Check yours before disaster strikes
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By Rasha Madkour  HOUSTON  --  Imagine rewiring your house while living in it. Now imagine you're not even sure the new power system will work and you're 220 miles above the Earth.
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Weak housing market hurting demand for power tools.
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These guilty parties must work together to fix the housing fiasco.
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BEIJING  - It's the ultimate in home repair: hundreds of rooms, a century of fire damage and neglect and steadily mounting wear and tear from seven million visitors a year.
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New research says that live-in boyfriends are more likely than husbands to help with house cleaning. And guess who reports better sex lives?
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In an era of bland developments and play-it-safe colour schemes, it can be exciting to find a house with genuine personality.
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Imagine buying a new home where your neighbors can decide how it's decorated, what you cook for dinner, how big your dog is and what kind of sex you have. And they can toss you out if they don't like it.
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There is new hope that Earth, if not the life on it, might survive an apocalypse five billion years from now.
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For six years, the groundbreaking and award-winning Dwell magazine has been offering its growing number of green-leaning readers an intelligent yet accessible conversation about modern residential design. To get its message across &#151; in print, on the web, and in podcasts &#151; Dwell&#146;s creative team depends on a bevy of Macs.
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The next victim of the housing bust might be you.
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The Villages today is a shambles. The community that describes itself as a place "to enjoy life as you've always dreamed" is now a living nightmare. After suspected tornadoes ripped through central Florida, resident Jack Hurst said: "Within a few yards, there were houses that had no roof, no walls." Christopher Patton at the emergency operations center said: "We have complete devastation."
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Hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires: a year after Katrina, a tour of the American hazardscape shows that we haven't learned much