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Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,
ArchWeek Residential brings you housing news and analysis weekly from the editors of ArchitectureWeek.
Yes, today's dual large earthquakes and attendant tsunamis _are_ a residential design and building issue, and terrifyingly real.
To some extent that depends on your neighborhood. But the issues of disasters, from physical devastation, to shifting patterns of investment, to real emotional trauma, are less geographically limited than many may prefer to think.
These particular strikes on our vulnerable human habitations will prove to have death tolls sadly far, far higher than early accounts indicate:
| New York Times wrote: | Devastation from two earthquakes thousands of miles apart spread throughout Southeast Asia and the South Pacific on Wednesday, leaving death, injuries and panic in their wake from Indonesia's western coast to the far-flung islands of Samoa and American Samoa.
Footage of affected areas in American and Western Samoa in the Pacific, where tsunamis have killed scores, officials said.
On the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, a 7.6 quake struck Wednesday evening just 30 miles off the coast of the city of Padang, killing at least 75 people and trapping thousands in buildings. Indonesian television stations showed images of flattened hospitals, hotels and houses, burning cars, and terrified residents running in the center of the city. Power and telecommunications were cut, complicating rescue efforts when night fell.
A day earlier in the Samoans, an underwater 8.0 quake produced a tsunami that struck after dawn, causing at least 89 deaths and destroying villages throughout the islands.
The epicenters of the quakes were located about 6,000 miles apart in an unsettled region and immediately brought back vivid reminders of the horrific earthquake-tsunami disaster that ravaged South and Southeast Asia nearly five years ago, killing hundreds of thousands of people. |
Two Powerful Earthquakes Leave Islands Reeling
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/world/asia/01pacific.html
Housing developments made today, and in the coming years, are
going to face payback challenges that include ever-increasing
background costs. We'll do well to plan intelligently for it.
Residential Design and Building News
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Housing Prices Up, but Consumer Confidence Down Again - Washington Post, 2009.0930
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/29/AR2009092903690.html
More Debris Falls in Calgary; Charges Laid in Toddler Death - Daily Commerical News, 2009.0930
http://www.dcnonl.com/tt/35530
US Mortgage Rates Stay at May Low - Freddie - Reuters, 2009.0929
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2914923820090929
New Zealand August Home-Building Approvals Rise 1.7% - Bloomberg, 2009.0929
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a5N1VjfwcxOY
Private Sector: Housing Recovery Vital to Ending the Recession - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2009.0929
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09272/1001515-432.stm
Small Mortgage Banks Band Together - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0928
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125409581012245013.html
Debris Fall at Calgary Fatal Work Accident Site 'Inexcusable' - Calgary Herald, 2009.0928
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Debris+fall+Calgary+fatal+work+accident+site+inexcusable/2041220/story.html
Building Slump Leaves Wolseley with £1.17bn Loss - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0928
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/28/wolseley-construction-losses
KB Home Posts Smaller 3Q Loss as Sales Increase - Associated Press, 2009.0926
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g_C4_LH58L7tSOrEqKte6h8ADxegD9AUIM7G0
New Home Sales Lose Momentum in August - Business Week, 2009.0925
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2009/09/new_home_sales_4.html
Goods Orders, New-Home Sales in U.S. Probably Rose Last Month - Bloomberg, 2009.0925
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aiedyEnH3LKs
Borrowers Rush in as Mortgage Rates Slip Below 5% - Los Angeles Times, 2009.0925
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mortgage-rates25-2009sep25,0,7384998.story
Table of Data on Existing US Home Sales - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0924
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090924-707733.html
Oil Falls to a 8-Week Low as Existing U.S. Home Sales Drop - Bloomberg, 2009.0924
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axwxfH27b8WE
Canada's Housing Starts Rise in August - Daily Commercial News and Construction Record, 2009.0924
http://dcnonl.com/article/id35441
Economists React: Home Resales Drop ‘Unpleasant Surprise’ - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0924
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/09/24/economists-react-home-resales-drop-unpleasant-surprise/
Sales of Existing U.S. Homes Probably Climbed as Prices Fell - Bloomberg, 2009.0924
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aPbcNBVIRKZk
A Place Fit for the Boss - New York Times, 2009.0924
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/garden/24cheap.html
Insurers Seek Looser Rules on Home Mortgage Holdings - Bloomberg, 2009.0923
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aF_dOxCMOJjM
Will There Soon Be Another Chapter 11 Tort Claim Trust for Chinese Drywall Claims Against an Insolvent Builder? GlobalTort (blog), 2009.0923
http://www.globaltort.com/2009/09/will-there-soon-be-another-chapter-11.html
Flood Dangers Not over for Georgia - CNN, 2009.0922
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/09/22/southeast.flooding/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
The Plan: Resize and Reorient - New York Times, 2009.0920
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/realestate/20posting.html
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