Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
[Previous Months In Review here: Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apl 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
By: David A. Smith
Continuing our review of September’s posts, technology changes interpersonal dynamics and in so doing reveals aspects of human nature, in particular that what matters in crime prevention is [...]
[Previous Months In Review here: Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apl 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
By: David A. Smith
During September, I published a two-part post so depressing and sober it had taken me a year to take it out of inventory, about Winston Smith’s nightmare: The ultimate future city: [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
By: David A. Smith
As we saw yesterday, for fifteen years Joe Slovo had been an informal settlement in the Cape Flats that resisted all attempts at structural improvement. One night, that all changed:
Joe Slovo, March 2009
(A large set of pictures is here, from which this post’s images are drawn. My quotes [...]
By: David A. Smith
The best thing to happen to the informal settlers of Cape Town’s Joe Slovo township began with a spark:
March 9, 2009
On 9th March 2009, a fire razed 500 shacks to the ground, and left 1,500 homeless.
(Unless otherwise captioned, all photos are from iKhayalami and cover the March 9-11 rebuilding days.)
What evolved [...]
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 [...]
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