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Future social: design ideas, essays and discussions on social housing for the 'hardest-to-house'

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Homelessness is a serious problem throughout the world and Vancouver is no exception. In 2009, students of the University of British Columbia's School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture produced a series of essays that generate innovative design ideas for Supportive Housing that meaningfully contribute to solving the problem of homelessness, envisioning innovative and exciting new types of design for this serious issue. This book is a collection of their essays that grapple with the issue of housing the homeless of the Downtown Eastside. As editor Matthew Soules, professor at UBC and director of Matthew Soules Architecture, writes, "they aim to glance at a future Vancouver in which its model urbanism folds in the ways that architecture can respond to the issue of homelessness with superior social housing."

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B. C. Binning, Binning house. West Coast modern house series

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While the Binning House is beloved by a select group of architects, academics, and local heritage buffs, its subtle splendours remain largely hidden to a wider audience. This first book devoted to this exceptional house sheds new light on Binning’s ingenuity. Original photographs and drawings are presented along with writing that analyzes in detail the unique architectural character of the house.

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Icebergs, zombies, and the ultra thin: architecture and capitalism in the twenty-first century

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In "Icebergs, zombies, and the ultra thin," Matthew Soules issues an indictment of how finance capitalism dramatically alters not only architectural forms but also the very nature of our cities and societies. We rarely consider architecture to be an important factor in contemporary economic and political debates, yet sparsely occupied ultra-thin "pencil towers" develop in our cities, functioning as speculative wealth storage for the superrich, and cavernous "iceberg" homes extend architectural assets many stories below street level. Meanwhile, communities around the globe are blighted by zombie and ghost urbanism, marked by unoccupied neighborhoods and abandoned housing developments.