Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
By: David A. Smith
As we saw yesterday, using as our text a protracted City Journal editorial essay by Nicole Gelinas, when eminent domain is used for economic development (ED4ED) with a private developer as the implementing party, the potential for mischief is simply enormous – because the law of economic gravity [...]
By: David A. Smith
Is blight, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder?
Houses to be condemned to make way for Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. Look blighted to you?
Or is blight just a planner’s word for a city’s natural messiness?
Does this look blighted to you?
Though the question is metaphysical, the answer is anything but. On that [...]
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 [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday, examining the New York Times‘ reporting of Ben Bernanke’s reconfirmation as Federal Reserve Chairman, we saw that the Times focused on what happened – a 70-30 final vote – rather than the mountainously glaring things that didn’t happen:
“But the Senate did nothing at the hearings.”
“That was the [...]
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