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 week 3 readings and assignment inspiration.

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some sources to get inspired for your timelines.

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here is an example of a text based diagram using size and type of font, along with color to create hierarchy.

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this is a more standard expectation, but as designers, it may be best to think about methods like those above. i realize that they require some software ownership, so those of you distance students, you may have to find a way to be creative with the resources you have, or aim to have a very CLEAN more standard timeline as shown below.

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for a very advanced look, but interesting none-the-less.

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Flower Mound. Digital image. Rating the Suburbs. D Magazine. N.d. Web. 16 June 2008. <http: //www.dmagazine.com/Home/2008/06/11/Rating_the_Suburbs.aspx>.

Suburban area. Digital image. Suburban Slums. Culture Waves. N.d. Web. 24 January 2012. < http://culturewav.es/public_thought/119511>. 

How can homes of suburbia translate back to traditionalism?

The traditional design could be translated back into suburban housing that has become the “cookie cutter” norm. A change in design of the homes of a “clustered world” to one that enhances the traditional aspects of the home could essentially become the norm of suburbia. Although found on narrow lots, efficient planning between the builder and a designer can create this connection between the conventional planning and traditional aspects found in earlier homes.  

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"Arial View of Cookie-Cutter Homes." Photo. Bigstock.com 24 Jan. 2012.

Who is responsible for creating the uninspired, cookie cutter houses of suburban sprawl?

There are literally hundreds of people and groups who collaborate in order to successfully plan, develop, build, sell and purchase homes in the ever-expanding growth of suburban life. When this complex process runs smoothly, the common outcome of this venture is the creation of a “clustered world” where “suburban neighborhoods have been constructed of similar houses sold at similar prices to families who purchase similar kinds of household goods” (Hayden, 2004, 32). Why do developers continue to build these homes, architects continue to design these homes, and buyers continue to invest in these properties when there is nothing unique about the homes, and there is little to no diversity or sense of community?

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"help them help us"

Aside from having design backgrounds, how can we as buyers, renters and housing consumers help builders and developers with the many issues of suburbia in the past few decades?

After reading through the documents for this week, inspiring thoughts consumed me especially after going through Colton’s Housing in the 21^st Century readings. What has never occurred to me until now is not that builders and developers often get the worse end of suburbia criticism, but that often they aren’t the root cause of the situation. As Colton discusses, “Home builders influence what happens in the market-place, but in large part, they do not lead the market, they follow it (p 306).” One of their biggest concerns is supplying the demand from potential home buyers and renters, because if they don’t give them what they request, they would go out of business.


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image source: Monopoly Houses on Map. Author, Richard Florida. Jan 2009.
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topics for this week = the other 75% and the role of the designer/developer.

Dell Upton. “Architecture in Everyday Life.” New Literary History, Vol 33, No. 4, Everyday Life [Autumn 2002], p. 707-723

Dolores Hayden, Field Guide to Sprawl (New York, 2005)

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Ellen Dunham-Jones. “Seventy-five Percent: The Next Big Architectural Project.” Harvard Design Magazine. Fall 2000: 4-12.

Paul L. Knox, Metroburbia, USA (2008) 66-85 

Colton, Kent W., Housing in the 21s' Century: Achieving Common Ground (Cambridge, 2003) 303-319

Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. (New York, 2000) 99-114.