Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
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 [...]
By: David A. Smith
“Either you bring the water to LA or you bring LA to the water.”
– Noah Cross, Chinatown
“‘Course I’m respectable. I’m old.”
Someday I’ll post in detail about Chinatown, because it (and its spiritual cousin, True Confessions) is a great film about housing development and municipal infrastructure, whose economic power did much to define [...]
By: David A. Smith
Statistics are not stories – but then again, stories are not statistics, and statistics represent the totality of real life.
We choose to remember our highlights and lowlights, our moments of intensity – and we choose to forget anything that is drab, commonplace, routine, or redolent of the profane. So, for [...]
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