The following post recently appeared in Better Cities and Towns : What are the planning and community development implications of live-work? They are legion, and some are not what they first appear to be. All are treated in detail in my book Live-Work Planning and Design: Zero-Commute Housing, (Wiley, 2012). 1. First, live-work is not …

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Late last year, Mike Pyatok, whose firm, Pyatok Architects in Oakland, California specializes in multifamily and affordable housing, was interviewed by Builder Online about the subject of live-work. While Mike touched on many of the same subjects treated in Live-Work Planning and Design: Zero-Commute Housing, he raised some important points about the ways that regulations and standard ways …

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