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Holographic home decoration trends; house robots that patrol your property and clean the living room; novel home building trends with next-gen appliances built in—this page covers the trends and news that will guide the future of the home.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMvvrMtV9TU
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Homeownership is an integral part of the American dream. But it’s fundamentally broken today. In this talk Adena Hefets, cofounder and CEO of Divvy Homes, ex...
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https://phys.org/news/2020-01-street-network-patterns-reveal-worldwide.html
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Ultra-white paint might soon allow buildings to self-cool instead of depending on air-conditioning units.
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https://www.politico.eu/article/the-death-of-the-city-coronavirus-towns-cities-retail-transport-pollution-economic-crisis/
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Politico
Teleworking, not the coronavirus, is making urban living obsolete.
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https://abc11.com/home/robot-lawn-mowers-coming-to-a-yard-near-you/4441217/
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ABC 11
A Triangle company has a robot that will take one of your regular chores off the list. Mowbot of the Triangle offers robotic lawn mowers that mow your entire lawn day or night and rain or shine.
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Home service bots can now take care of most of consumers’ household chores and security requirements.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/floor-cleaning-robots-a-k-robotics-1.4881482
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CBC
A&K Robotics was founded by three UBC graduates in 2015 and has developed a technology that turns conventional floor cleaning machines into self-driving robots.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBtl1UTHji8
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YouTube - The B1M
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-welcome-to-shanghai-the-capital-of-the-future/
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The Globe And Mail
Shanghai, one of the planet’s most populous urban centres, is growing at breakneck speed. But thanks to decades of planning, they’re doing it right. The city is destined for global supremacy
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http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21601027-worlds-sake-and-its-own-china-needs-change-way-it-builds-and-runs-its
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Economist
For the world’s sake, and its own, China needs to change the way it builds and runs its cities
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3167922/The-end-urban-sprawl-Ambitious-plan-fit-entire-CITY-inside-single-bee-hive-skyscraper-house-25-000.html
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Daily Mail
The 'Vertical City' project, overseen by Luca Curci, an architect based in Bari, Italy, features a slick-looking tower, which would be population-dense and able to hold 2,500 people at any time.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/09/08/909680016/zoom-towns-and-the-new-housing-market-for-the-2-americas
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NPR
One America is living in a housing boom. The other needs support from the government or family for an affordable place to live.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXkq4E3dZHA
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VisualPolitik EN
In our world, cities are becoming increasingly important. Most of the population lives in them, they generate the bulk of the economic activity and most of t...
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https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jun/04/is-chongqing-china-horizontal-skyscraper-the-answer-to-overcrowded-cities-raffles
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The Guardian
A 42nd-floor ‘skybridge’ in the dazzling Raffles City project could help solve overcrowding – or will it simply let the super-rich escape to the skies?
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesrealestatecouncil/2020/03/02/everything-you-need-to-know-about-automated-valuation-models-avms-in-real-estate/
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Forbes
Appraisers, investors and lenders can leverage AVMs to get a more accurate value for their property of interest.
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Ambient interfaces can make the use of technology non-intrusive and subliminal for humans.
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Smart kitchen appliances like ovens and refrigerators are transforming food management to its most efficient potential.
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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/solar-panel-windows-made-possible-by-quantum-dot-breakthrough-1445213
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International Business Times
Researchers create transparent solar cells that could be used to replace windows and power homes in the future.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/08/vancouver-declares-5-of-homes-empty-and-liable-for-new-tax
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The Guardian
After introducing a 20% tax on foreign buyers, the city in western Canada is continuing to tackle housing affordability
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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/new-high-tech-toilets-not-require-hands-paper-article-1.1710437
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New York Daily News
A new generation of toilets may one day make toilet paper - and the need to put one’s hands anywhere near the unspeakable - seem like chamber pots and outhouses: outdated and somewhat messy throwbacks reserved for camping trips.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7eaw/robot-landlords-are-buying-up-houses
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Vice
In a nutshell, the article discusses how landlords are increasingly using robots to buy and manage properties. This shift is largely due to the fact that robots can do things like collect rent and manage repairs more efficiently than a human can. As a result, this new trend is likely to have a big impact on the rental market in the years to come. To read more, use the button below to open the original external article.
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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/4/20726427/raj-chetty-segregation-moving-opportunity-seattle-experiment
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Vox
Chetty says the Creating Moves to Opportunity program has "the largest effect I’ve ever seen in a social science intervention."