A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo

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超越可负担住房：美国混合用途开发中的公共基础设施整合

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在20世纪的大部分时间里，美国的保障性住房一直被视为一个独立的住宅类别。由于受到特定融资结构和开发模式的影响，低收入居民的住宅与城市更广泛的市政和商业功能彼此割裂。联邦住房立法及随后的城市更新政策，促成了许多大型住宅小区的建设，而这些项目的资金来源和日常管理往往独立于周边的城市基础设施。

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