Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1].
“Who are you going to believe: me or your lying eyes?”
– Groucho Marx, Duck Soup
To redevelop Jordan Downs, one of Los Angeles’s largest and worst public housing properties, requires gargantuan capital – the figure $1,000,000,000 has been bandied about – and that, in turn, requires massive political capital, [...]
“Trust me just this once.”
– from Great Lies in Real Estate, Volume 3
“Trust me, I’m on your side”
Slums persist in part because they have defenders. Among those defenders are many slum residents themselves, for whom a lifetime’s experience has taught them, Trust no one, especially any well-dressed or well-spoken newcomer who claims, “I’m from the [...]
[Continued from last Thursday’s Part 1 .]
In Part 1 of our tour of 15 housing projects from hell, via the passionate posters at the funky Web site Oobject, we indicted the architects, led by Le Corbusier, for throwing up concrete stack after stack of monoliths.
Can you too be an urban planner?
Just try these plans and specs
Yet [...]
If architecture cannot make us into better human beings and societies, can it make us into worse ones? Can large monolithic high-rise blocks dehumanize us? As presented on the funky Web site Oobject, herewith are 15 housing projects from hell, through which – aside from being appalled that architects, builders and government inflicted these upon [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]
So far in this three-part post, using as our text this New York Times story, we’ve followed the Atlanta Housing Authority’s fifteen-year quest to reverse the public-policy error of excessively large purely public housing properties with deep income concentration [...]
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