"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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Articles
Building Oversized Homes Created an Environmental Housing Crisis
Why Are American Houses So Big?
Why we can’t build small homes anymore
Downsizing the McMansion: Study gauges a sustainable size for future homes
A Growing Problem in Real Estate: Too Many Too Big Houses
House prices, open space and household characteristics
Twenty-four Reasons Historic Preservation is Good for Your Community
Conservation-Based Affordable Housing
‘The Hamptons: No Vacancy’: Scott Bluedorn Illustrates Severity Of East End Affordable Housing Crisis
The unappreciated economic value of environmental stewardship
Are McMansions Making People Any Happier?
As American homes get bigger, energy efficiency gains are wiped out
The Case For A Smaller House: Talking Clients Out of The Big House They Want to Build
On Long Island, a Beachfront Haven for Black Families
Myths Commonly Associated with Historic Preservation & Designation
This Ain't the Hamptons...This is Bonac
Research
Property In The Anthropocene-I
Property in the Anthropocene-II
Understanding House Price Appreciation using Multi-source Big Geo-data and Machine Learning
The McMansion Effect: Top House Size and Positional Externalities in U.S. Suburbs
Protecting Earth: If ‘Nature Needs Half,’ What Do People Need?
Property Law as the Infrastructure of Democracy
The Public Nature of Private Property
Form-Based Codes: A Step-By-Step Guide for Communities
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.
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
CCOM Webinar Series | Montauk’s Coastal Resiliency
Endangered Historic Places 2021: SANS Historic District
Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island
Segment about Andrew Geller from "Modern Tide"
Books
More Coming Soon
-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
-A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
Zoned in the USA:The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation, by Sonia A. Hirt