Category: Month in review

Month in Review January, 2010: Part 2, groping among the trees

19 February, 2010 (09:27) | Estates Taxes, Legislation and policy, Month in review, Predictions, Speculation, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
By: David A. Smith
 
[A full year's Month in Review available here: Dec 09, Nov 09, Oct 09, Sep 09, Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May  09, April 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09.]
 
In January, aside from one little post about the invisible delights of apartment living (It’s what you [...]

Month in Review January, 2010: Part 1, seeing the forest

18 February, 2010 (10:49) | Essential posts, Legislation and policy, Month in review, Predictions, Speculation, US News | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 
[A full year's Month in Review available here: Dec 09, Nov 09, Oct 09, Sep 09, Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May  09, April 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09.]
 
A blog is pointillist – sparkly bits of insight (we hope) collected by the roving eye of an intellectual crow.  Yet [...]

Month in Review: November, 2009

21 December, 2009 (12:36) | Consulting, Innovations, MEEs, Month in review, Slums, Speculation, US News, Urbanization | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 
[Previous Months In Review here: Oct 09, Sep 09, Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 
The more I write about housing, the more entangled it becomes with the fabric of cities, formally and informally.  Housing is what makes places into cities, because cities [...]

Month in Review: October 2009, Part 2, AHI’s thinking

4 December, 2009 (12:26) | Capital markets, Innovations, Month in review, Slums, Speculation, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]

 
[Previous Months In Review here: Sep 09, Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]

 
By: David A. Smith
 
October featured extensive consequences of the capital shakeout: human consequences, political consequences, and bank recapitalization consequences.  These interesting times (as the Chinese curse would describe them) [...]

Month in Review: October 2009, Part 1, the world at large

3 December, 2009 (11:47) | Capital markets, Innovations, Month in review, Slums, Speculation, US News | No comments

[Previous Months In Review here: Sep 09, Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 
By: David A. Smith
 
In our US housing world, July and August are the sleepy months when Congress flees the scene, September is the month of recovery, and in October all conventioneering and symposiating [...]