I was on a panel last month with Jamie Miller, director of biomimicry at B+H Architects, and he remined me just how much I am fascinated by the use of biomimicry in architecture and engineering. Nature is pretty impressive and I think there’s a lot… Read More
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Phoenix’s cool pavement pilot program
When I was in Phoenix this past spring I noticed a number of people carrying their big dogs around. At first I wasn’t sure what was going on. I thought maybe the dogs were injured and couldn’t walk. But then it dawned on me that… Read More
Water supply and air conditioning
This past weekend I was reminded that Phoenix is largely what it is today — the 5th biggest city in the US — because of two very important things. Firstly, the city had to figure out water supply. About 50% of the city’s water supply… Read More
Frank Lloyd Wright hated tall people
I have been in a few of Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses and in every case it turned out like this: The Prairie School (of architecture), for which Wright was a pioneer, was all about horizontality. That typically meant flat roofs, deep overhangs and, in the… Read More
A completely car-free neighborhood in Arizona
The New York Times recently published this interesting piece about Culdesac and the completely car-free community that they are building just east of Phoenix in Tempe, Arizona (a place that is not generally known for its walkability). Culdesac calls itself the first “post-car real estate… Read More
The Central Arizona Project
Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the United States. It has a city proper population of about 1.6 million people and a metro area population of close to 5 million. It is also one of the fastest growing cities in the US. But being… Read More
People are camping out in Opendoor’s homes
Inc. Magazine just did a profile on Opendoor, which is a company that we have, of course, talked a lot about on this blog and that I continue to follow closely. It’s interesting to read about some of the challenges that they’ve been having as… Read More
Why Phoenix is ground zero for algorithmic home buying
I have been writing about algorithmic home buying on the blog since Opendoor launched back in 2014. I don’t have anything new to report on that today, but this recent article from the WSJ is interesting in that it talks about why Phoenix, in particular,… Read More