Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Cities mean traffic jams.
Broadway, New York City
Yes, you can have traffic jams without cities, but you cannot have cities without traffic jams.
1962
As illustrated in this throwaway piece from New York Times, that doesn’t stop politicians from decrying them and wishing they would go away:
Speaking of traffic-taming measures for Broadway around Times Square and Herald [...]
Just as fuzzy boundaries are bad boundaries, rules that are not enforced are worse than useless. For they give some people the illusion of order, while others know the reality of disorder.
Which led me, over the years, to expound this simple principle:
Rules you don’t enforce are worse than useless
I know alcohol’s Prohibited, officer, but can’t [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday’s speculation on the relationship in cities between optionality (our ability to see others) and privacy (our desire to prevent them seeing us) used housing, the linchpin of cities, and the seminal study of peeping, Rear Window:
Wholesome or unhealthy? Milk, a sandwich, and a telephoto lens
As we saw yesterday, the movie [...]
Cities are where total strangers live companionably in close proximity – literally on the other side of a wall, floor, or ceiling. Why do we do this, and what does it imply about how we create urban housing?
As housing is the linchpin of cities, all these tensions and choices manifest themselves in our housing configuration [...]
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
Yesterday’s post highlighted a deliberately provocative Washington Post Op Ed, What OPEC Teaches China, by Sebastian Mallaby, arguing that our pricing expansion – and now the painful contraction – were caused by deliberate currency manipulation from China.
I am offended that you question my motives
The second rival account of the crisis … [...]
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