The Live-Work Unit: Background

New Urban News Technical Page by Andres Duany, Michael Morrissey, and Patrick Pinnell

The American Dream is ending. Or, more accurately, the version of it that dominated the continent since the end of World War II is now in its baroque final phase. Demographic trends and changes in the prevailing kinds of work are bringing on the now-inevitable finish. It is time to recognize the situation and grasp the opportunity to shape a new American Dream better fitted to social and economic reality.

The next few Technical Pages will widen earlier discussion of the Ancillary Unit to consider the issues raised not only by having two or more residential units on a single home lot, but also by including one or more work places on the same residential lot.