Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
A couple of weeks back, so quietly you might have missed it [You certainly did! -- ed. I said it was quiet, didn't I? -- Ed.], the President took his (and therefore the Federal government’s) position on the rebuilding of New New Orleans.
He punted.
“Put that problem in somebody else’s territory.”
He issued Executive Order 13389 [...]
[Continued from Part 1]
Kelo came about as a result of a brilliantly orchestrated multi-year strategy by a small advocacy group, the Institute For Justice. For fifteen years they’ve worked on takings matters, first in regulatory takings — First English, Nollan, Palazzolo, and Tahoe-Sierra – with efforts that have largely failed.
They’ve cherry-picked plaintiffs with great [...]
Last Thursday evening, Jerold S. Kayden, co-chair of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Department of Urban Planning and Design, after an introduction by Professor Rick Peiser (head of the GSD’s Real Estate Academic Initiative), gave a fascinating and cogently argued hour-plus talk on eminent domain for economic development (ED4ED) as seen through the lens [...]
“The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can’t play it the same way twice.”
Since virtually everything I do in business is some form of Calvinball, I must salute Calvin, his tiger Hobbes, and their putative creator, Bill Watterson, who twenty years ago today brought forth everyone’s favorite eight-year-old.
Calvinball remains the best metaphor I [...]
For some time I’ve had this title in my unwritten-posts inventory, but now the French riots, and the French government’s so-far-unimpressive response thereto, bring it to the fore:
Catastrophe is a precondition to fundamental reform
“Maybe we should rethink the station design ….”
Fundamental reform means major structural system in a system that is operating. This means disruption, [...]
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