Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Continuing the recap of December’s post, during December we looked globally (Dubai’s shadow bankruptcy) and locally (New York City’s public toilets). Gotham City, the cradle of American apartments, also served as the setting for an Experiment in urban micro-living: Part 1, the pluses, and Part 2, the minuses:
It’s [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Previous Months In Review available here: Nov 09, Oct 09, Sep 09, Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09.]
When the history of our global credit crunch is written, the last two weeks in December will be seen as an outbreak – the Patient [...]
By: David A. Smith
If we can put a man on the Moon, why can’t we create clean, attractive public toilets in major cities? That question is implicit in a little New York Times deposit on the subject of effective business models for urban defecation entitled We weren’t quite ready for the modern toilet [...]
By: David A. Smith
Singing about a better life: the Durban enumeration
“Have you ever been to an enumeration?” asked my hostess at the Gates Foundation convening. She had brought together all the grantees under the Urban Poverty Limited Learning Initiative, including ourselves, for two days of brain-cudgeling on what we had individually and collectively learned, so [...]
By: David A. Smith
Continuing our occasional series on the Ultimate Future City:
The Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov, 11/07
The Naked Sun, by Isaac Asimov, 11/07
The World Inside, by Robert Silverberg, 12/07
Diaspar, The City and the Stars, by Arthur C. Clarke, 3/08
Displaying our technology for the universe to see
The half-century in which we are living, which [...]
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