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The Ballardosphere rises in the London Orbital

Here is a wonderful post from a fantastic blog.  Reality follows fiction with the case of the development of ‘Ebbsfleet’, a suburb centred ‘Bluewater’ on the exurban super mall just Southeast of London.  My gosh, I thought, they’re trying to build Edmonton.  Already living in the Ballardosphere, I can affirm that Bluewater is a descendant [...]

Sub-Prime and Suburbia

As the “sub-prime” mortgage crisis winds its way across the United States (and impacts the lives of everyone else) we are left wondering how this real estate tsunami will affect the future of home-buying, suburbia, and urbanism. The Atlantic.com suggests that the shuttering of the suburban dream is being fiscally hastened by financial crises, and [...]