Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday, using as our text a words-and-pictures story from the New York Post, we met the enterprising and quirky Zaarath and Christopher Prokop, who have elected to buy a micro-home in New York. They wanted convenience in Manhattan, controllable occupancy cost, security of tenure, and lowest payments – [...]
By: David A. Smith
Complex organisms have scale limits, a minimum and maximum size:
Any smaller and it cannot control its flight
Any larger and it cannot lift itself
Like physical organisms, systems also have scale limits: sports leagues, currency zones, or nations. Below a minimum size they collapse; above a maximum they fracture.
The same scale limits apply to [...]
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 [...]
By: David A. Smith
Singing about a better life: the Durban enumeration
“Have you ever been to an enumeration?” asked my hostess at the Gates Foundation convening. She had brought together all the grantees under the Urban Poverty Limited Learning Initiative, including ourselves, for two days of brain-cudgeling on what we had individually and collectively learned, so [...]
[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) [...]
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