Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
If to a hammer everything looks like a nail, to a government everything should be solved by lawyers, guns, or money. So when the government factory wants to achieve particular public-policy results, it manufactures either or both of its products – laws and money – to motivate private participants, principally Mission Entrepreneurial Entities (MEEs), as [...]
Did you ever fight with your sibling over who got the ice cream cone, only to see it splatter onto the sidewalk?
Who ordered the large?
That’s the sinking feeling probably being experienced by the government public-private team trying to recruit developers into their Herculean effort to redevelop Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, as the global credit crunch thins [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
In yesterday’s post, I expended several hundred words in a possibly-unnecessary exercise – intellectually demolishing the feasibility of architectural speculations, presented in the Boston Globe, that I believe even their proponents would concede are whimsical fantasies, never intended to exist beyond CAD/CAM screens and jpegs.
They represent an [...]
By: David A. Smith
“So this unemployed architect walks into a bar and says, ‘our erections can last for years’.”
Okay, maybe not precisely that cheesily, but something similarly whimsical had to have been in the minds of Boston Globe editors when they sent out an offer to under-employed architects, What would you do to [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
As we saw in yesterday’s post, policing is more effective and more civilized if it is preventive, a role played by the cop on the beat since first sentries walked their posts.
Twirling a jaunty billy club
In earlier times, policing was preventive (discouraging crime) or even pre-emptive (rounding up [...]
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