Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
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Although yesterday’s half of the June review included nothing but bad news of valuable innovations broken or disrupted, the month also included stories showing that Schumpeter was right: some things deserve to be broken.
Too bad for [...]
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Who, me?
Busted things dominated June’s posts, a trend of which I was unaware until compiling the month-in-review. June was busting up all over, starting with the sad spectacle of properties less costly demolished than boarded up, in Plowing it [...]
If slums disappear only through conflagration (natural or man-made) or by assimilation into the formal city, then we will need to take existing informal housing and gradually formalize it.
Because you are what you live in, urbanization requires formality:
But as cities imply increasing physical density (more [...]
In yesterday’s blog post, we heard from Jamaican columnist and developer/ architect Carlton Cunningham, whose his mid-April Gleaner column describes his successful housing development, Old Harbour Glades, that has apparently replaced “the bad lands of Succaba Settlement”:
“Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail in shanty town”
His summary of how it was done, and [...]
Allow Jamaican columnist and developer/ architect Carlton Cunningham the voice of pride that shines through his mid-April column in The Gleaner as he describes his successful housing development:
Building hope through housing
Jamaican housing is stratified. Uptown erects gated communities while downtown erects settlements at the gates. Some settlers provide valuable services to the gated, while [...]
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