Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday, using as our text a words-and-pictures story from the New York Post, we met the enterprising and quirky Zaarath and Christopher Prokop, who have elected to buy a micro-home in New York. They wanted convenience in Manhattan, controllable occupancy cost, security of tenure, [...]
By: David A. Smith Complex organisms have scale limits, a minimum and maximum size: Any smaller and it cannot control its flight Any larger and it cannot lift itself Like physical organisms, systems also have scale limits: sports leagues, currency zones, or nations. Below a minimum size they collapse; above a [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] [Previous Months In Review available here: May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09] 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 [...]
[Previous Months In Review available here: May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09] 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, [...]
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 cubic space per square foot of land area), [...]
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