Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post, using as a convenient seed an upbeat article from CNN (January 8, 2013), introduced the concept of a core house, plus technological gadgets, as an improvable ‘fruitcake house’. Construction of a basic core house, with a malleable or modifiable material for walls and [...]
By:David A. Smith While for some of us a house is a completed product, something we buy one day and use the next (after enduring the travails of moving), but that’s an illusion, as even our completed house begins changing the day we move in – and for most of the world, a home [...]
By: David A. Smith Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. – Genesis 3:19 Is it vandalism to clean selectively? Filthy, isn’t it? Or is it? Not according to Inhabitat, where I found this little parable of our internally combustible cities: Graffiti is one of the most controversial [...]
By: David A. Smith While housing is immovable, jobs and people move, and where people live in one house and work in another, they must commute between the two, mustn’t they? RDP houses, Soweto … and jobs are ninety minutes away As reported in The New York Times, this is often more [...]
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 [...]
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