Across the country, people are looking for housing options that shape affordable, walkable, and desirable neighborhoods.
Daniel Parolek inspired a new movement for housing choice in 2010 when he coined the term “Missing Middle Housing,” a transformative concept that highlights a way to provide more housing and housing choices in sustainable, walkable places. This housing type includes a range of house-scale building with multiple units compatible in scale and form with detached single-family homes.
Join the Maryland Department of Planning and the Smart Growth Network at 10:00 Pacific Time, Tuesday, July 28, when Parolek, author of the new book, Missing Middle Housing, illustrates how these housing types, when designed well, can be a powerful tool to create the communities that people both want and can afford.
Date: Tuesday July 28
Time: 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time
You can register at this link.
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A “Missing World View” is a transformative observation that comes to us from the environmental movement. Without such a view we are trapped in a bubble of endless demolition and reconstruction carried out in the name of economic development without regard for environmental impacts.
The missing middle housing form is missing because it is not desirable for most folks. What is desirable for almost everyone is a house on a lot with freehold title. Let us not kid ourselves, endless expansion of the population is not sustainable. We are far beyond the carrying capacity of the planet already. Endless reconstruction is not sustainable because it results in climate change. It does not deal with the underlying issue of over population.
We could spread ourselves across the landscape and disappear into the natural world where we can live lightly upon the land. If there really is such a thing as an “urban human species”, then we will have to say that it appears to be an evolutionary dead end.