Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Concluded from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] As we saw in yesterday’s blog post, Turkey’s government has now adopted urban regeneration as an urgent national priority – to reduce disaster risk, to protect the nation’s economy, and to improve cities’ efficiency for global competitiveness. My panel [...]
By:David A. Smith Van, Turkey, October, 2011: never again? A few weeks back, on 10 May 2012 (and after a welcome weeklong vacation on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast), I was once again a featured panelist at the Turkish National Real Estate Association (Gyoder)’s annual conference in Istanbul. The banner reads, Real Estate Conference, [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] Ever since Haiti’s earthquake, I have tried to avert my gaze from it. Like Kurt Vonnegut’s Tralfamadorians, I avoid thinking about tragedies past and focus on triumphs present and potentially future. From the moment the first [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] While reconstruction aid money for Haiti huddles in New York, and after $3.1 billion has already been spent just on humanitarian relief, as revealed in an MSNBC story highlighting Haiti’s lack of any preconditions for successful reconstruction, new communities [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post, the first of a depressing and anger-inducing series on Haiti’s wasting reconstruction using an MSNBC story highlighting absence of improvement, laid out a seven-component recovery environment, with the seventh (financing) arising only when the governmental and financial ecosystem has the six Preconditions. [...]
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