Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
We all live in a yellow submarineYellow submarine, yellow submarine
– Richard Starkey
Every one of us has all we need?
Perhaps it’s because, as city dwellers, we seek green space and crave privacy, but few destinations capture our imagination more than the idyllic deserted island.
Societal conventions optional
Yet we’re rational enough to realize that a [...]
[Continued from last Thursday’s Part 1 .]
In Part 1 of our tour of 15 housing projects from hell, via the passionate posters at the funky Web site Oobject, we indicted the architects, led by Le Corbusier, for throwing up concrete stack after stack of monoliths.
Can you too be an urban planner?
Just try these plans and specs
Yet [...]
If architecture cannot make us into better human beings and societies, can it make us into worse ones? Can large monolithic high-rise blocks dehumanize us? As presented on the funky Web site Oobject, herewith are 15 housing projects from hell, through which – aside from being appalled that architects, builders and government inflicted these upon [...]
[Previous Months In Review available here: Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
Though housing is the output of an enormously complex, ever-changing, hugely capitalized value chain, unlike other abstract capital-markets products like Credit Default Swaps, we all connect to it because we live in its [...]
Once before, I posted seriously that you are what you live in:
I has a haddock
In Jungian dream interpretation, the house is the self:
A house in a dream generally speaks of one’s psychological house, the house of the “soul.” We often see different homes that we’ve lived in. Ask yourself, if the home [...]
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