Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith If the world keeps urbanizing – as it will – and cities keep going ever more vertical – as they will – then the moment will come when what constitutes the city may be seen as a single building, stretching for miles across the landscape, like Isaac Asimov’s Caves of Steel [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] After two days of posting demonstrating the utter failure of NYCHA’s command-and-control ass-and-elbows approach to crisis management, reported by the New York Times (December 10, 2012), there is a bright story about community networks, self-organized and almost spontaneously evolving, as [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Ten days after superstorm Sandy, as we saw in yesterday’s post, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was claiming, as reported in this exhaustive New York Times (December 10, 2012) chronicle, that all of NYCHA’s public housing properties would have power within a few days: [...]
By:David A. Smith Before the Federal government bestows untold billions on New York City for its recovery from Sandy, should it not ask if New York City is deserving of such bounty? Volunteers deliver food and inquire about specific needs among residents of the Red Hook Houses on November 16, nearly three weeks [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post used a New York Post (October 19, 2012) story and many other sources to explore New York City’s Operation Clean Halls program, under which rental landlords give permission for NYPD officers to conduct floor-to-roof patrols through their properties, and to challenge anyone who [...]
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