Category: Economic development

Economic nitrogen fixing: Part 2, add organic fertilizer

22 April, 2011 (09:43) | Cities, Economic development, Economics, Eminent domain, Markets, Slums, Theory, US News | 1 comment

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   By: David A. Smith   Yesterday’s post, riffing on a terrific multi-part post from Jim Capraro of the Institute for Comprehensive Community Development, demonstrated that, just as poor soils that cannot fix nitrogen into the earth, some neighborhoods are poor because they cannot capture and retain capital from outside [...]

Economic nitrogen fixing: Part 1, import and recycle nutrients

21 April, 2011 (15:35) | Cities, Economic development, Economics, Eminent domain, ICCD, Markets, Slums, Theory, US News |

By: David A. Smith     What makes a neighborhood poor?    Slum in Manila    In a great multi-part post , Jim Capraro  of the  Institute for Comprehensive Community Development  offers a flash-of-genius answer:   Slum in Cairo (Garbage City )    A long time ago, a colleague and I were working in a very poor neighborhood [...]