"When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect"
--Aldo Leopold
Resources
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MORE COMING SOON
Articles
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Building Oversized Homes Created an Environmental Housing Crisis
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Why Are American Houses So Big?
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Why we can’t build small homes anymore
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Downsizing the McMansion: Study gauges a sustainable size for future homes
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A Growing Problem in Real Estate: Too Many Too Big Houses
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House prices, open space and household characteristics
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Twenty-four Reasons Historic Preservation is Good for Your Community
Conservation-Based Affordable Housing
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‘The Hamptons: No Vacancy’: Scott Bluedorn Illustrates Severity Of East End Affordable Housing Crisis
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The unappreciated economic value of environmental stewardship
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Are McMansions Making People Any Happier?
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As American homes get bigger, energy efficiency gains are wiped out
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The Case For A Smaller House: Talking Clients Out of The Big House They Want to Build
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On Long Island, a Beachfront Haven for Black Families
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Myths Commonly Associated with Historic Preservation & Designation
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This Ain't the Hamptons...This is Bonac
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Research
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Property In The Anthropocene-I
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Property in the Anthropocene-II
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Understanding House Price Appreciation using Multi-source Big Geo-data and Machine Learning
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The McMansion Effect: Top House Size and Positional Externalities in U.S. Suburbs
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Protecting Earth: If ‘Nature Needs Half,’ What Do People Need?
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Property Law as the Infrastructure of Democracy
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The Public Nature of Private Property
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Form-Based Codes: A Step-By-Step Guide for Communities
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Videos
More Coming Soon
ONE BIG HOME. A documentary about the efforts of one builder to bring awareness and restraint to overdevelopment on Martha's Vineyard.
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MVIHT is an affordable housing model implemented on Martha's Vineyard--it is relevant for EH and we need to explore starting one here. Watch this video
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CCOM Webinar Series | Montauk’s Coastal Resiliency
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Endangered Historic Places 2021: SANS Historic District
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Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island
Segment about Andrew Geller from "Modern Tide"
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Books
More Coming Soon
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-The View From Lazy Point, by Carl Safina
-A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold
-Weekend Utopia, by Alastair Gordon
-The Overstory, by Richard Powers
-Mens Lives: The Surfman and Bayman of the South Fork by Peter Matthiessen
-Design With Nature, by Ian McHarg
-What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, by Michael J. Sandel
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-A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
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Zoned in the USA:The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation, by Sonia A. Hirt
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