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Looking like two small cottages stitched together, the Nguyen house in Biloxi, Mississippi, doesn’t look futuristic. The house was built over several months in 2007 in a neighborhood scoured by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It was intended to use new wind-and flood-resistant standards in innovative and affordable ways, and to employ green design and construction techniques that could easily be replicated.
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Russell, J.S. (2011). Real Estate. In: The Agile City. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-027-9_3
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