'Blade Runner' Was Set In 2019. What Does It Tell Us About The Cities And Real Estate Of Today And Tomorrow?
Los Angeles, 2019. It is jarring to realize, but we are living in the future, or at least, the future imagined by director Ridley Scott in his 1982 science fiction classic, "Blade Runner".
"Blade Runner" is one of the most visually iconic sci-fi films of all time, set in a dystopian version of Los Angeles, where it seems to be permanently dark and raining. The city is almost as much of a character as Harrison Ford's police officer, Rick Deckard, and the “more human than human” replicants he hunts down.
And for that reason, it is worth looking at what the film got right and wrong about the city of the future as imagined 37 years ago. How the city and real estate imagined in "Blade Runner" actually evolved tells…
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School Districts Finding Creative Ways To House Teachers
With teacher strikes and worker's rights campaigns getting national attention, the teaching profession is symbolic of a deepening housing crisis in the United States. A few school districts across the country have begun taking steps to address the issue of workforce housing for their teachers directly.
The Santa Clara Unified School District in California's Bay Area is among several in California that have built apartment buildings specifically to rent to their teachers at below-market prices, the New York Times reports.
Metro Nashville Public Schools, the Tennessee capital's…
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Wetlands Protection Rollback Will Benefit Developers More Than Farmers
The Trump administration's rollback of federal protections for wetlands and waterways, an action that President Donald Trump said will benefit farmers, will help real estate developers and the energy industry more.
An analysis the administration released last month shows that of the nearly quarter-million federal permits issued from 2011 to 2015 for wetlands-related work, developers were involved an average of nearly 1,000 times each year, the Associated Press reports.
Farmers, by…
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Beyond The Bio: 16 Questions With S9 Architecture Co-Founding Principal John Clifford
This series profiles men and women in commercial real estate who have profoundly transformed our neighborhoods and reshaped our cities, businesses and lifestyles.
John Clifford has always liked to build and fix things. He started with blocks, then moved to Lincoln Logs and Legos, then erector sets, sand castles and an engineering degree from Georgia Tech.
These days, the S9 Architecture co-founding principal is busy building blocks on a much bigger scale: His projects include Charlotte's Camp North End and Atlanta's Ponce City Market and 725 Ponce.
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Half Of This City's Buildings Could Require Upgrades Under New Climate Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Owners of hundreds of buildings across D.C. will soon be required to make investments to improve their energy performance under a sweeping new law.
The D.C. Council passed a bill Dec. 18 aimed at addressing climate change by reducing the city's greenhouse gas emissions that has been lauded as "historic," "groundbreaking" and the "strongest climate legislation" in the nation. The bill, which Mayor Muriel Bowser plans to sign into law Friday, calls for cutting D.C.'s greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2032.
With a majority of D.C.'s emissions coming from buildings, the bill puts heavy responsibility on property owners to improve their sustainability in the coming years.
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