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What is Smart Growth
January was the hottest month on record (going back to 1880) in Seattle, some 7 degrees F above normal You can see the evidence in this photo of my Iris’s that I just took. Kind of messes up the notion that because it was cold on the East Coast this year that global warming must [...]
Full StoryAffordable Housing and the Future
This Friday, June 12, I have the opportunity to address a conference on Affordable Housing, at the Everett Washington Events Center. There is still time to register. As you may know I have been speaking about the future of housing, and community design, for some time, and particularly since September 2007 when I made a [...]
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Archi-Tech Magazine has a nice feature on “Future Tech” in our buildings and homes and neighborhoods, based on some interviews with futurists, including me. ARCHI-TECH asked several futurists and forward-thinking designers to tell us which technologies and trends are most likely to have a significant effect on the building industry in the future, both short [...]
Full StoryFalling Home Prices in U.S. – How far?
In the fall of 2007 I spoke to a housing conference, and argued that the issue about to confront real estate in the United States was not so much the sub-prime mortgage debt crisis, though that was going to be huge. Rather, I suspected, the underlying issue is the severe mismatch between how much houses [...]
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The future of housing in this economy is on everyone’s mind. Last week the opportunity to present a keynote speech to the annual Colorado Housing Conference gave me a chance to re-visit this topic. The conference is one that focuses especially on policy related to developing affordable housing. My task was to broaden the scope [...]
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The Future. You have to see it to believe it. We present a selection of videos on future topics, including a futurist Keynote speaking sample . Go to Additional Video Pages: Futurist Speaker Keynotes – Examples of Glen Hiemstra speaking. The Futurist.com Team – team interviews shot in early 2009. Videos by Futurist.com – Videos [...]
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