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
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 [...]
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