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...story L-shaped structure; and a 2,000-sq.-ft., two-story vacation home. Second, choose your ?components for living?: wall type, finish, kitchen, bathroom, storage, built-ins and lighting. Next, Lazor Office (whose only existing prototype is Charlie Lazor's Minneapolis, Minn., residence, although the firm is building 20 more across the country) will customize them to fit your space, even taking into account climatic and solar conditions. Finally, the prefab firm Empyrean will piece it all together...
...abandon state-hospital site a few blocks from downtown Cambridge, Minn., New Urbanism has gone country. "People are building a neighborhood," says Father James Hahn, 70, a priest and new homeowner in the Heritage Greens development. The antisprawl design movement emphasizing small homes, spaced tightly in walkable communities, has budded in cities, suburbsand now small towns...
Sprawl plagues once sleepy hamlets, as development follows highways and then builds new housing right to the edge of town. So Cambridge (pop. 7,000) drafted Warren Hanson, a former yoga teacher turned urban planner who champions livable, affordable neighborhoods, to fight back. In St. Peter, Minn., dubious officials watched Hanson on the council-chamber floor maneuvering toy cars and Styrofoam houses on a gigantic paper plan of a neighborhood. "That was when their light turned on that this could work," says city administrator Todd Prafke. "It's like the neighborhoods where they grew...
GLORIA J. KIESTER Northfield, Minn...
Barbara Deneen, a 58-year-old public defender from St. Paul, Minn., gets downright intimidated when she goes to department stores looking for clothes. "They're all so teenybopperish," she says. "I end up buying a size 14 or a 16, and I'm not that big. It's embarrassing...