For fourteen years, Scott Strazzante, a Pulitzer prize-winning photographer at the Chicago Tribune, tracked the evolution of a typical Illinois family farm through its transformation into a suburban subdivision. With housing sprawl replacing grazing land and big box stores built where crops once grew, this award-winning documentary depicts a phenomenon all too familiar in rural areas.
As often as we talk about sustainable building design strategies and technologies, it’s just as critical to look beyond the building and immediate site, to the context of the street, neighborhood, and community infrastructure.
The use of prefabricated and modular building strategies has been an area of much discussion in the realm of architecture, construction, and design in recent years, and sustainability advocates often discuss its relevance in terms of social and economic issues, such as affordable housing, urban development, and environmental responsibility.
It's Earth Week, and in preparation for Earth Day on the 22nd, we thought we'd kick off the week by sharing one of our favorite green roofs in Laguna Beach...
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