Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith [Previous Months in Review available here: Jan 11.] How quickly things can change: midway through February, I posted in two parts on Syria, praising the historic restoration efforts in old Aleppo, in Bypassing the twentieth century: Part 1, the past is ever with us, and Part 2, the future [...]
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By: David A. Smith As we saw in yesterday’s post, to create the future out of the past, a city’s infrastructure – including its grid layout and traffic patterns – have to be remade, all the while preserving the buildings that are its cultural heritage. Crossroads of [...]
By: David A. Smith Cities are urban palimpsests, each new culture laid atop the old, which lies buried in the ruble underneath – or, if the city is continuously inhabited, like Aleppo, still coexisting, the new and the old cheek by jowl. How many centuries can you see in this picture? That [...]
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