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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One Colorado county tries a novel capitalist approach to containing the spread of monster houses
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Increased survival sounds like great news. But it may not mean what you think.
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Habitat for Humanity International has built homes all over the world. But now it has some work to do in its own backyard: A twister cut a devastating path through the organization's hometown last week.
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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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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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Home furnishings just aren't fashionable these days.
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The American fetish for homeownership can lead to some perverted outcomes.
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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
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Planners have been inundated with a flood of applications for new housing developments.
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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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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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As evacuation orders come down, homeowners ask: What really matters? What can't be replaced?
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com. When a film puts &quot;Apocalypse&quot; in the title, you expect more than what you get with &quot;Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
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Turning potential housing into inhabited homes is proving to be a major challenge for the city.
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Practical tips for when your financial house is in disarray.
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When civilization falls, does it make a sound? Two books about the end of worlds--and what follows