Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
In yesterday’s post, I expended several hundred words in a possibly-unnecessary exercise – intellectually demolishing the feasibility of architectural speculations, presented in the Boston Globe, that I believe even their proponents would concede are whimsical fantasies, never intended to exist beyond CAD/CAM screens and jpegs.
They represent an [...]
By: David A. Smith
“So this unemployed architect walks into a bar and says, ‘our erections can last for years’.”
Okay, maybe not precisely that cheesily, but something similarly whimsical had to have been in the minds of Boston Globe editors when they sent out an offer to under-employed architects, What would you do to [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Waves to Harvey and smiles]
“No, no, not yet. Not until me and Harvey get the rules straightened out.”“Rules!?!? In a knife fight!?!? No rules.”
Butch Cassidy and Harvey Logan
Abject desperation yields a creativity verging on the laughable, as illustrated by this recent Wall Street Journal about residents whose developer has what can only [...]
By: David A. Smith
Just as bad facts make for bad law, bad laws make for bad behavior and bad administration. Nowhere are these contradictions more visible than when adjacent jurisdictions that have a shared interest in macroeconomic health think they can get away with boundary exploitation by taxing more on our side of the fence [...]
By: David A. Smith
We all live in a yellow submarineYellow submarine, yellow submarine
– Richard Starkey
Every one of us has all we need?
Perhaps it’s because, as city dwellers, we seek green space and crave privacy, but few destinations capture our imagination more than the idyllic deserted island.
Societal conventions optional
Yet we’re rational enough to realize that a [...]
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