Saturday, 2 March 2013

3MAR: wealth inequality in the USA

http://mashable.com/2013/03/02/wealth-inequality/

Iam not very far from the poverty line
http://www.familiesusa.org/resources/tools-for-advocates/guides/federal-poverty-guidelines.html

1MAR: meeting CHUD

CHUD is the Center for Housing and Urban Development.
http://chud.arch.tamu.edu/

I met with Shannon Van Zandt, the director of CHUD at TAMU, got a thick book on affordable housing and some great tip on workload now and later in the career.

The tamu branch, she explained is research and vulnerable communities in general oriented.
The colonias program - more hands on approach - moved to San Antonio. I shall meet Oscar Munoz the director.
http://colonias.arch.tamu.edu/where-we-are/san-antonio-office/

- pick: either study 1 technology, or how to implement it, make it viable
- do not re-invent the wheel, find out what has been done already - at tamu and elsewhere


Sustainable urbanism course looks crunchy, yum
http://chud.arch.tamu.edu/students/sustainable-urbanism-certificate/