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Father and son architect team Quinlan and Francis Terry at their studio in Dedham. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

In a warren of rooms inside a 400-year-old townhouse on the Essex-Suffolk border, a counter-revolution against the most dramatic rebuilding of the London skyline in decades is gathering strength.

Eschewing computer power for sharp pencils and tracing paper, father and son architect team Quinlan and Francis Terry are drafting classically inspired designs for some of the capitals most prominent sites in a fightback against plans for hundreds of new skyscrapers.

Working from offices wallpapered with copies of the Times from 1957 in the picturesque historic town of Dedham, they are the antithesis of their modernist rivals in central London studios. But their latest scheme confirms them as a spearhead of a growing movement for an alternative urbanism.

As part of a bid for one of the most sought-after and prominent super-prime sites in the capital, they have drafted a gigantic apartment groundscraper on the site of the armys Hyde Park barracks in the style of the Paris city blocks planned by Georges Eugne Haussmann in the 19th century. It could be the sign of things to come. David Cameron last month appointed Quinlan Terry to a government panel advising on new housing design standards and awarded him a CBE.

With its stone facade and mansard roof, the traditional proposal for the site, which the Ministry of Defence is considering selling off, is the latest gambit in a broadening campaign against schemes for clusters of towers on prime land, maximising profits at the expense, critics argue, of human-scale streets and public spaces.

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The counter-movements key players include Prince Charles, who earlier this year made a speech backing a new wave of traditional architecture to help solve Londons housing problems; Paul Murrain, an urbanist and until recently an architecture adviser to Charles; and Nicholas Boys Smith a former adviser to the chancellor, George Osborne who has set up a lobby group against the direction development is taking under the banner Create Streets.

About 250 towers of more than 20 storeys are being planned in London according to research by the New London Architecture centre, sparking unfavourable comparisons with the unchecked development of Dubai and Shanghai.

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Increasing consumer confidence, a recovering housing market and tourism growth are paving the way for a bright 2015 in retail, industry experts say.

"As the economy becomes more stable, businesspeople will feel more confident starting new businesses," said Samantha Stratton, spokeswoman for the Florida Retail Federation. "It's easier to rally a loyal customer base during these times."

Retailers are now more willing to invest in the opening of additional shops because they believe they can count on "more reliable customers" who will stay in South Florida and not put their houses on the market and move to a new region looking for jobs, Stratton said.

"Consumer confidence is still on the rise as we are coming out of the recession," she said.

Tourists from Latin America, Canada, Europe and elsewhere also are continuing to flock to Florida and, fortunately for retailers, they bring empty suitcases to fill them up with merchandise found at bargain prices, Stratton said.

Broward and Palm Beach counties are poised for growth as available retail space becomes harder to find and more expensive to obtain in Miami-Dade County, said Russell Bornstein, a senior vice president at CBRE, a global real estate services firm.

"You are going to see Broward and Palm Beach counties catch fire like Miami did," Bornstein said.

Vacancy rates in Miami-Dade are around 3 percent, while Broward and Palm Beach are around 7 percent to 8 percent, he said. Asking rates for retail spaces in Miami-Dade are about $40 per square feet, compared with $18 to $20 in Broward and Palm Beach counties, according to Bornstein.

"Retailers that did not get into Miami-Dade County will push into Broward and Palm where there's still some opportunities," Bornstein said.

Developers of several major projects are likely to continue approval processes and construction.

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Charron Rausa and her husband, Frank, are nearing completion of their improbable campaign to restore an iconic statue, the 48-foot, 270-ton Eternal Indian that draws about 400,000 visitors a year to bluffs along the Rock River in Oregon, Ill.

They've raised 90 percent of the money needed to renovate the structure, which is in Lowden State Park about 100 miles west of Chicago. An experienced, highly regarded conservator has been hired. A crew has sheathed the statue in mesh and scaffolding to protect it from the elements until work can start in the spring.

Having achieved all that from an idea hatched at their kitchen table in 2008, the septuagenarians now face a grimmer, more formidable challenge. Charron Rausa was diagnosed last month with stage 4 lung cancer. The disease has spread through her body.

She and her husband have decided against asking doctors for details on her prognosis or how long she may have to live. The Rausas simply have made up their minds that Charron is going to see the new statue's unveiling, which is set tentatively for late 2015.

"When I shook my finger at the doctor, he looked a little shocked," Charron Rausa, 79, recalled of the day she got her diagnosis.

She laughed, something she does often, and recalled telling the doctor she needed to finish her treatments and be well by the fall, "because I've got some place to be. I've worked too hard on him (the statue) not to be there."

The hard work started in their home in Sterling. After reading a local newspaper story about the loss of state funding to restore the statue, Charron Rausa turned to her husband and said, "Frank, the American people fixed the Statue of Liberty. Now, doggone it, we need to fix the Black Hawk statue."

The 103-year-old cultural and historic touchstone, designed by acclaimed sculptor Lorado Taft, acquired the Black Hawk name as a reference to the martyred Native American who led his people during the Black Hawk War of 1832 in the region. It looks nothing like Black Hawk the man, however.

And, different historical sources claim the statue's face is based on a composite of Native American men or one of Taft's close friends, writer Hamlin Garland, who lived at an art colony that occupied the area before it became a state park.

After reading that newspaper story, the Rausas got to work almost immediately. Frank Rausa, 72, wrote a grant to obtain funding, but that was rejected. The Rausas established a nonprofit, Friends of the Black Hawk Statue Committee, and were able to place the statue on the National Register of Historic Places.

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A key measure of hospital emergency room use in Los Angeles County shows continued growth during the first six months of Obamacare, but also points to shifting patterns of where patients are choosing to receive urgent medical treatment.

With the healthcare expansion last year, many are watching how the Affordable Care Act affects emergency room use.

President Obama has promised his signature health law will gradually reduce expensive ER visits as access to other kinds of care is expanded. Critics contend newly insured patients especially those enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state's low-income health program that picks up most patient costs aren't likely to seek care elsewhere, and will overwhelm emergency rooms.

Neither of those outcomes were clearly evident in the first months of the new healthcare system's operation in Los Angeles County, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis.

Data hospitals report to the state show that as insurance coverage was extended to hundreds of thousands of residents, ER visits for ailments not serious enough to require an admission grew 3.9% in the county in the first half of 2014, compared with the same period the previous year. The growth is in line with annual increases of 3% to 5% in the three years prior to the federal healthcare overhaul.

Despite little rise in overall emergency room use, the analysis found some significant changes in the distribution of those outpatient ER visits.

The county's three large public hospitals, which historically have cared for many uninsured patients, recorded a 9% drop in such cases. At the same time, several private hospitals reported double-digit percentage increases in outpatient visits, the analysis found.

What the uneven and changing usage patterns mean and whether they signal the beginning of a long-term rearrangement of how patients will seek treatment is not yet clear.

Shannon McConville, a health policy researcher at the Public Policy Institute of California, said the slight growth in visits not leading to an admission generally considered less serious cases that include those that Obamacare aims to divert away from emergency rooms was "good news."

In addition, several private hospitals said they have, at least for now, been able to handle increases in ER patient visits.

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Big changes are scheduled for the coming monthsat the Waukegan Public Libraryas a remodeling of the main floor begins Saturday, Jan. 10.

The $1.2 million transformation, however, will force the library to close its doors from Jan. 10 through Jan. 18.

After that, patrons can expect to see sporadic changes through June as the project will continue while the library remains open.

By mid-June, library patronscan benefit from a series of new features, including a digital media wall that displays news.A cafe area that will be located near the entrance will be another amenity.

Library spokesperson Rena Morrow said the entire staff is excited about the changes.

Morrow is especially enthusiastic about the expanded space for national and in-house exhibits.Some are expected to include 3D items andmonitors for informational videos.

There are four or five new ones planned, Morrow said of the exhibits.

Permanent displays honoring author Ray Bradbury will be placed throughout the book shelves, which will be moved to the opposite side of the room.

The most significant alteration, though, will be located in the middle of the room, where digital media is currently housed.

Six glass-encased rooms for individual studies or group meetings will be made available through reservations.

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