"FEMA trailers with dignity"
JUST CAME ACROSS the Katrina Cottage I - the first of what promises to be many misguided New Urbanist prescriptions for Gulf Coast reconstruction.
No time right now for a tirade, but I'd be interested to hear comments from my readers...
link: New Urban Guild's Katrina Cottage I
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I guess the intention is to restore the shotgun house archetype to many of those who once lived in such kind of housing. It's not too innovative, to be sure, but I wouldn't be surprised to find lots takers for such examples of delusional nostalgia.
I wish they would put some plans of the thing up. I'm counting windows in the pictures and I can't figure out how that little shed sleeps four.
In the 90's, I volunteered to lead teams on Habitat homes with H4H in Atlanta -- and that thing looks like a smaller version of the thing we were building 14-at-a-time. Those neighborhoods aren't winning any awards. Is the New Urbanist influence that has a porch, that it won't have much of a yard, or that it's got clapboard siding?
If you stack the things, then we might have something to talk about.
Arg! I forgot the reason I wanted to comment was this elegant little retort...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/magazine/22design.html
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