Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from last week’s Part 2 and Part 1.]
[Editorial justification for the tour: If we want to improve slums, we have to see them as ecosystems – spontaneous self-generated communities, self-organized, economically rational, economically efficient, adaptive and robust. We may not like the slums (like Dharavi in Mumbai, Kibera in Nairobi, or Sao Paulo's favelas) we may [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
[Editorial justification for the tour: If we want to improve slums, we have to see them as ecosystems – spontaneous self-generated communities, self-organized, economically rational, economically efficient, adaptive and robust. We may not like the slums (like Dharavi in Mumbai, Kibera in Nairobi, or Sao Paulo's favelas) we may wish them [...]
A while back, I read Steven Johnson’s excellent The Ghost Map, which chronicles the Victorian health reformers’ crusades to improve the public health, and the dogged empiricist Dr. John Snow, who deduced that cholera was waterborne, and by the tiniest of actions – removing the handle from the Broad Street Pump – stopped London’s most [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
To cheer you up from the current global capital mess by focusing on the misfortunes of others, I’ve been working through a recent article from The Guardian, Nigeria tangentially enumerating all the blockages in a disabling capital environment. Yesterday’s post listed rule of law (highwaymen!), lack of political context (a barely-civil [...]
So used are we in the developed world to the presence, even omnipresence, of a capital-enabling environment – of governmental and legal infrastructure that supports capital’s movement and wealth’s generation and accumulation – that we take it for granted. Yet for much of the world, these basics are not only lacking, their emergence is blocked. [...]
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