Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s Part 2 on the bureausclerosis choking France’s economy, using as source material a small-scale article in the Washington Post (April 16, 2013), zeroed in on the debilitating effects of excessive regulation from afar and identified some principles of regulatory balance [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday we saw, via an article in the Washington Post (April 16, 2013), that France’s centralized government (and behind it, the even-more-remote European Commission) so distrusts anyone it does business with that it has promulgated at least 400,000 norms and rules, all of them violating [...]
By:David A. Smith When Yeats wrote Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, he could never envisioned the rise of the Bureaucratic State, which believes that lack of touch is no reason to loosen one’s grip on the capillaries – and so, unless the acquisitive tendency is checked, one reaches an end state such [...]
By:David A. Smith Can you see the future from here? Old buildings obscure Olympics-related development in a view of the East End skyline. Spectacles always end with a grand finale that makes everyone feel good, the better to validate all the hard work and investment, and yet there is always a morning after [...]
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 [...]
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