Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith By mixing and matching snippets from three stories – the New York Post (March 30, 2013) (brown font), the San Francisco Chronicle (November 20, 2012) (blue font), and Bloomberg (January 29, 2013) (green font) – we’ve been able to see [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post brought us cheerful CAD/CAM renderings of innovative micro-scale apartments being pioneered in New York and San Francisco, two cities that combine heavy-headed development restrictions and skyrocketing rents, the relationship between which is revealed only when one lines up three different stories, specifically the [...]
By:David A. Smith Just as a single data point does not make a trend, an individual news story stands by itself, but when we add another point, the resulting line becomes a new dimension, and a third point makes a plane in two dimensions, so it wasn’t until I read this story in the [...]
By:David A. Smith What do we live for? Pleasure, happiness, success, new experiences, friends, children, loved ones? Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care (about time) Old age, the silent thief, can imperceptibly steal each of these from us, and as all of us are reluctant [...]
By:David A. Smith Sprouting in the desert: October Gardens townhouses When it comes to understanding affordable housing, nothing substitutes for actually seeing the product, as built, in its location – and so, when I had a free day in Cairo a few weeks back, I naturally enough spent it not crawling through the [...]
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