Notes

Introduction

1. nrel.gov/analysis/seminar/docs/ea_seminar_aug_12.ppt, accessed March 5, 2011.

2. epa.gov/region9/waste/solid/stardust/index.html, accessed March 5, 2011.

3. nlihc.org/doc/Prelim-Assess-Rental-Affordability-Gap-State-Level-ACS-12-01.pdf, accessed March 5, 2011.

Chapter 2

1. corelogic.com/About-Us/News/New-CoreLogic-Data-Shows-Second-Consecutive-Quarterly-Decline-in-Negative-Equity.aspx.

2. Anthony J. Badger, The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933–1940, p. 239.

3. archives.gov/education/lessons/homestead-act.

4. urbansculpture.com/history.

5. thehistoryof.net/history-of-home-mortgages.html.

6. howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=prefab-house.htm&url=searsarchives.com/homes.

7. grow-management.Alachua.fl.us./building/build code.php.

8. Badger, The New Deal, p. 239.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid., p. 242.

11. “Who Can Afford to Live in a Home: A Look at Data from the 2006 American Community Survey,” prepared for the US Census Bureau.

12. census.gov/hhes/www/housing/special-topics/files/who-can-afford.pdf.

Chapter 4

1. Robert Shiller, The Subprime Solution, p. 45.

2. nytimes.com/2008/12/21/business/worldbusiness/21iht-admin.4.18853088.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1, accessed January 10, 2011.

3. Robert Shiller, Irrational Exuberance, p. 38.

4.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/business/worldbusiness/21iht-admin.4.18853088.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1, accessed January 10, 2011.

5.The Giant Pool of Money, This American Life, NPR, originally aired May 9, 2008; thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money.

Jo Becker, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Stephen Labaton, “Bush Drive for Home

6. Ownership Fueled Housing Crisis,” New York Times, December 21, 2008.

7. asanet.org/press/foreclosure_crisis_and_race.cfm, accessed December 14, 2010.

8. CNNMoney.com,accessed January 10, 2011.

9. Shiller, The Subprime Solution, pp. 71–72.

10. Ibid., p. 69.

11. Ibid., p. 73.

12. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, nrel.gov/analysis/seminar/docs/ea_seminar_aug_12.ppt.

13. Douglas Farr, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature, p. 367.

14. Shiller, The Subprime Solution, pp. 76–77.

15. Ibid.

16.babcockranchflorida.com/, accessed January 10, 2011.

17.housingworksri.org/, homepage as of March 31, 2011.

18. nhc.org/media/documents/FramingIssues_Heath.pdf.

Chapter 6

1. earthship.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=356, accessed April 2, 2011.

2. energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=home_sealing.hm_improvement_insulation_table, accessed December 2010.

3. See naturalhomemagazine.com/energy-efficiency/plant-your-way-to-energy-savings-landscaping-energy-efficiency.aspx, accessed December 2010.

Chapter 9

1. buildersofhope.org.

Chapter 10

1. uli.org/ResearchAndPublications/Reports/~/media/Documents/ResearchAndPublications/Reports/Affordable%20Housing/Urban%20Infill.ashx, accessed April 4, 2011.

2. Ibid., p. 4.

3. nemw.org/images/stories/documents/energy_benefits_infill_brfds_final_12-08.pdf, p. 3, accessed April 4, 2011.

4. Ibid.

5. uli.org/ResearchAndPublications/Reports/~/media/Documents/ResearchAndPublications/Reports/Affordable%20Housing/Urban%20Infill.ashx, p. 4, accessed April 4, 2011.

6. nemw.org/images/stories/documents/energy_benefits_infill_brfds_final_12-08.pdf, p. 3, accessed April 4, 2011.

Chapter 12

1. Lester R. Brown, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.

2. brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/05_carbon_footprint_sarzynski/–carbonfootprint_brief.pdf, accessed January 2011.

3. news.discovery.com/earth/urban-green-china-environment-110118.html, accessed January 2011.

4. Brown, pp. 197–199.

5. Ibid., pp. 193–194.

6. webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110118095356/www.cabe.org.uk/files/the -value-of-good-design.pdf, part F, accessed April 4, 2011.

7. online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704249004575385754270183396.html, accessed January 2011.

8. newtowncdc.org/pdf/social_consequences_study.pdf, accessed January 2011.

9. Brown, p. 160.

10. Ibid., p. 162.