The Privatopia Papers

Boing Boing: Tokyo's Nakagin capsule tower Now, that's what I call high-density living. Someday, will we all be living like this? ...

Firefighter Is Among Those Charged in Md. Arson Case (washingtonpost.com) This just gets stranger all the time. Read the whole thing--it...

NEWS.com.au Agents fined for murder house (December 19, 2004) This story is from Australia. Seems the real estate agents sold the house w...

The New York Times > National > A.C.L.U.'s Search for Data on Donors Stirs Privacy Fears You don't find too many examples of...

It's not easy being green for homeowner This sort of thing is why people move into HOAs. The city doesn't have an ordinance on hou...

WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio: Ashes Set Condo On Fire What's the lesson here? Don't put fireplace ashes in a flammable container and p...

sphere: Town-Sponsored Deer Hunt in Greenwich Tom Anderson, at Sphere , has been posting about a municipal deer hunt that will be done in ...

ContraCostaTimes.com | 12/17/2004 | Region scores low in housing report An influential group of Bay Area business leaders warns of dire ...

Revolving Condominiums? From a reader, to whom I extend my thanks for this fascinating link: Suite Vollard: the only revolving building...

As suburbs expand, residents get unwanted taste of hunting Maria Shapiro was startled last year when she spotted a stranger carrying a bow...

Social Security 'Crisis Is Now,' Bush Says in Pitch for Overhaul They say President Bush tells his staff he doesn't like to pl...

The New York Times > National > Private Guard at Home Site Charged With Arson Notice the Times had to stick that word "private...

Joy and Raptor On Fifth Avenue: Manhattan Co-op Reverses Decision to Evict Hawks That rich folks co-op in Manhattan has decided to allow ...

AHRC's holiday e-card What a hoot. Fred Pilot just alerted me to the American Homeowners Resource Center's new e-card. You can v...

Prairie Crossing -- a conservation community Here is the link to Prairie Crossing's web site. This is the development I mentioned bel...

Survey: A new J.D. Power study shows home-buyer satisfaction going up; Pulte takes platinum. NEW-HOME BUYERS ARE MORE SATISFIED than eve...

How to comment on proposed rule requiring escrowing of HOA and condo assessments for FHA-insured mortgages Let's see if this works. ...

Take 36 condos and call me in 2006: New urbanism remedies sprawl in Lake County, Illinois At Prairie Crossing, to be exact. That would be...

From Australia: Herald Sun: Plants sow seeds of hate [10dec04] A FLORAL foul-up has left a city street lined with swastika shapes in a wee...

Time for a constitutional amendment? A reader (in the comments to my post about being "open for comments"--scroll down to th...