Allison Arieff

A Flatpack Housing Concept for Haiti

Architect Andres Duany, best known for work designing New Urbanist communities (walkable, small-scaled, mixed-use) has shifted gears a bit to...

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Growing an Urban Farm

Little City Gardens is a blossoming urban farming business located in the Mission District of San Francisco. Farmers Brooke Budner and Caitlyn...

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Sustainable Scout Shelter

Shipping containers continue to capture the imagination of designers: now they may just inspire Boy Scouts. The architects at Gensler have just...

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The iPad Solves the E-reader's Design Problems

The iPad might not save newspapers, but it is going to save the e-reader. Years ago, I took a tour of a tech company's "house of the future"...

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Bring the Land to the People

The complete antithesis of the rural idyll that many might associate with farming, the 4-1/2 acre Alemany Farm is located just off the decidedly...

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Heroism and Home Economics

Getting access to fresh, healthy food is important but so is knowing what to do with it. When confronted with a butternut squash or bunch of kale,...

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Testing Tesla

Testing Tesla

After months and months of hearing about six figures, sexy curves, and four seconds from zero to sixty, isn't time to find out how the Tesla...

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