Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday’s essay inspired by a provocative new book, The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum by Sarah Wise, asked how and why a slum dies, based on the gradual and not—so-gradual elimination of London’s 1880 Old Nichol.
London, 1880
In today’s developed nations, slums are where, as the Times’ [...]
Where do slums go to die? And what kills them?
That question is raised by a provocative new book, The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum by Sarah Wise. Although not yet published in the States, and hence unavailable to Your Humble Blogger, it’s the subject of an interesting review in The [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
“A short option position with unlimited downside and limited upside”
– Anonymous risk manager, describing the career implications of rejecting a deal
Yesterday’s post featured the anonymous confessions, published in The Economist, of a risk manager giving a fear’s-eye view of recent turmoil in the capital markets. They’d had a nasty scare in [...]
“A short option position with unlimited downside and limited upside”
– Anonymous risk manager, describing the career implications of rejecting a deal
A few weeks back, The Economist published a truly remarkable confession by a (prudently) anonymous risk manager from a major financial institution, explaining in candid detail precisely how and why the risk-management function is structurally [...]
If you do something innovative, you should win an award, no?
I’d like to thank the Academy for creating awards so I can win one!
Henry Hudson Townhouses, the property so badly built it had to go somewhere to die, has been reborn as Village Green Apartments, and is up for Best Preservation of the Year [...]
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