Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Two nifty graphics illustrate how New New Orleans should and will differ from Old New Orleans. First, courtesy of USA Today, where have all the people gone?
Hurricane Katrina has dispersed 1.3 million Gulf Coast households to communities in every state from Maine to Hawaii, according to the first official accounting of the disaster’s unprecedented ripple [...]
On my recent trip to Cairo and Upper Egypt, I spent several hours accompanying the Careful Shopper on her forays into the souks of Cairo, Luxor, Edfu, Esna, and Aswan.
And that’s a clean one, folks …
While at the end the honors were largely divided between merchants and Careful Shopper, the long intervals I spent dodging [...]
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has recently published a free, but enormous (19 Meg!) report, Ten Principles of Successful Public-Private Partnerships.
“Charlie, have you saved that file to disk?”
The ten principles, each backed up with a couple of pages of useful exposition, are:
1. Prepare properly for public-private partnerships.
Lay in a large stock of P Scrabble [...]
What killed Gregory Rasputin?
“You’re kidding! Somebody didn’t like me?”
That the charismatic controversial monk died is indisputable; that he was murdered equally so:
Rasputin didn’t die easily. First, he resisted being poisoned with cyanide, then he was shot at close range. Left for dead, he recovered and attempted escape. He was then shot repeatedly, and … beaten [...]
A trio of articles from the most recent Economist support my earlier speculations about the shape of New New Orleans.
[Reference: Previous posts on New Orleans here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.]
“Shoulda been readin’ that AHI blob ….”
The key business drivers will be back in business quickly (September 8):
The port and the [...]
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