A forest of affordable housing?
Within the boundaries of the city state of Singapore, one can go from patches of primary rain forest to housing estates, industrial complexes, one of the world's largest ports and thousands of introduced species interlaced with multicultural assemblage of citizens.
Applying a mixed methods approach, this study examines historical information collected at the time of Cyclone Tracy to help understand the role of the urban forest and positioning of housing in reducing cyclone damage.
A plantation forest of high-rise housing (islands 1, 2, 3 in Figure 1) bears little relation with the region's rich architectural legacy, but serves a marketing strategy aimed perhaps at local investment opportunities, perhaps at Mainlanders if the present acquisition rules are relaxed.
In contrast, our results show that the southeastern lowland forests of ACLA-C house trees that tend to have lower wood density values.
Michael D. Daly, the president of Forest City Daly Housing of Manhattan, the developer of Chestnut Grove, said the Plainview site was "a location I would duplicate 1,000 times over if I could, because the vision here was a give-and-take between the children and the seniors".
Accordingly those energies which he ought to have devoted to the clearing of the forest, the erection of houses, and the tilling of the soil, he exhausted in premature explorations and a vain search for precious metals.
Ultimately, Mr. Daly, president of Forest City Daly Housing, which owns 16 other senior housing properties located within an hour of its Manhattan headquarters, abandoned the project.
Since arriving, Gladwell has installed a green roof – a forest of sedum atop the house that keeps energy bills low in all seasons, he says.
Among Xi'an's many notable sites is the Forest of Steles Museum, a treasure house of Chinese calligraphy with more than 3,000 upright stone slabs representing valued pieces of brushwork by many reputed calligraphers; it was established in 1078 during the Bei (Northern) Song dynasty.
