Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the previous Part 1.]
As we continue reviewing where urban Indians live (a companion to my previous two-part snapshot of India’s housing situation), and where they will live in the future, we started at the bottom, where the poor are making their own housing and communities entirely [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Does Does it matter where they live if they all go to the same school?
In yesterday’s post laying out a typology of where urban Indians live – a companion to my previous two-part snapshot of India’s housing situation – we started from the bottom up, looking initially at [...]
By: David A. Smith
Where do urban Indians live? In almost every configuration and tenure imaginable, from living in ramshackle sticks-and-tents to Texas-style-subdivisions, with everything in between.
Tents in the foreground, gated subdivision in the background: Ahmedabad
A little while back, returning from my three-week trip to northern India, I posted a two-part snapshot of India’s housing situation, [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
– The Beatles, A Day in the Life
If all you took from the February 11 Economic Times of India were the clips we highlighted yesterday, one could be forgiven for being depressed about India’s potential – [...]
By: David A. Smith
I read the news today, oh boy
– The Beatles, A Day in the Life
One day’s newspaper clippings – in this case, The Times of India, Thursday, February 11 – represent an info-montage of the world’s largest democracy muscling its way into the twenty-first century, and along the way the world’s largest and [...]
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