Category: London

Nobody home?

27 August, 2009 (10:00) | Compulsory purchase, Eminent domain, Local issues, London, Real estate taxes, Rental, Speculation | No comments

Why would you buy an expensive home in a tony London neighborhood and then leave it empty?
 

Vacancies even in my tony neighborhood?
That concerns me.
 
Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to peep through Mayfair’s lace curtains:
 
LONDON — At an abandoned home with yellowing newspapers on its front stoop, Paul Palmer peeks through a mail slot [...]

The ecology of a slum: Part 6, the future’s flows

16 April, 2009 (10:03) | Ecosystems, History, London, Slums, Theory, United Kingdom | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 5 and the previous Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.]
 
[Editorial justification for the tour: If we want to improve slums, we have to see them as ecosystems – spontaneous self-generated communities, self-organized, economically rational, economically efficient, adaptive and robust.  We may not like the slums (like Dharavi in [...]

The ecology of a slum: Part 5, government flows

15 April, 2009 (09:34) | Ecosystems, History, London, Slums, Theory, Urban Infrastrucure | No comments

[Continued from March 6th’s Part 4, and the previous Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.]
 

[Editorial justification for the tour: If we want to improve slums, we have to see them as ecosystems – spontaneous self-generated communities, self-organized, economically rational, economically efficient, adaptive and robust.  We may not like the slums (like Dharavi in Mumbai, Kibera [...]

The ecology of a slum: Part 4, family flows

6 March, 2009 (11:14) | Ecosystems, History, London, Slums, Theory, United Kingdom | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]

[Editorial justification for the tour: If we want to improve slums, we have to see them as ecosystems – spontaneous self-generated communities, self-organized, economically rational, economically efficient, adaptive and robust.  We may not like the slums (like Dharavi in Mumbai, Kibera in Nairobi, or Sao [...]

The ecology of a slum: Part 3, work flows

5 March, 2009 (10:43) | Ecosystems, History, London, Slums, Theory, United Kingdom | No comments

[Continued from last week’s Part 2 and Part 1.]
 
[Editorial justification for the tour: If we want to improve slums, we have to see them as ecosystems – spontaneous self-generated communities, self-organized, economically rational, economically efficient, adaptive and robust.  We may not like the slums (like Dharavi in Mumbai, Kibera in Nairobi, or Sao Paulo's favelas) we may [...]