Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday’s post covered half of my little talk – the challenges part – on the Infrastructure and Real Estate panel at Harvard Business School’s 2009 India Conference, one of the largest student-run events in the country, attracting several hundred people.
“So far out there I can’t be contained behind a dais!”
My [...]
In mid-March, I had the scintillating experience of participating on a panel in Infrastructure and Real Estate at Harvard Business School’s 2009 India Conference, one of the largest student-run events in the country, attracting several hundred people.
“Who knew slums could be funny?”
My fellow panelists were:
Abha Joshi-Ghani, Urban Sector Manager for the Finance, Economics, and [...]
Buried in the typical apartment lease is the resident’s right to ‘quiet enjoyment’ of the premises. While it doesn’t specifically mean noise (rather, it refers to undisturbed occupancy), as anyone who’s lived in an apartment complex knows, ‘quiet’ is often a precondition to ‘enjoyment.’
I’m not enjoying your taste in music
Noise travels, and it cannot be [...]
“Earth isn’t a place,” says Mayor John Amalfi, the hero of James Blish’s Blish’s multi-volume space epic Cities in Flight [One of our Ultimate Future Cities – Ed.], at the end of Earthman, Come Home. “It’s an idea.”
Homeownership is an idea, too, one whose powerful lure moves money and people across vast distances. As reported [...]
Not only is the world urbanizing, so too is America, and as we do, The value of urban land will continue to rise, with consequences that are both logically predictable – Every silver lining has a cloud – and utterly astonishing to those experiencing them, as detailed in this article from The San Francisco Chronicle:
It’s [...]
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