Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
[Editor's note: As the memory of Haiti's devastating earthquake fades, we are able to see that much of the tragedy was preventable – not the quake itself, but the toll in human lives. And we can therefore see this cautionary tale from Shanghai as not merely comic but tragicomic. – Ed.]
A building [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]
In using the New York Times’s superficial examination of the Ingersoll and Whitman public housing properties in New York City to bring out the challenges facing not just these two large properties but the entire legacy public housing inventory, we have so far [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday we visited Ingersoll and Whitman Houses, two large public housing properties in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood, where the New York Times showed the obligatory photographs of empty apartments and broken windows before giving an assemblyman a platform to spout complaints about the invisible ‘administrative management’ that makes [...]
By: David A. Smith
What bureaucrat can we blame for this?
The New York Times story inspiring this post follows the time-honored journalistic formula for spotlighting a problem to deplore: start with an incontrovertibly deplorable problem, chase it with a provocative quote, and skate superficially through the background.
It’s simple, class; to publish, you must write
Someone had [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Continuing the recap of December’s post, during December we looked globally (Dubai’s shadow bankruptcy) and locally (New York City’s public toilets). Gotham City, the cradle of American apartments, also served as the setting for an Experiment in urban micro-living: Part 1, the pluses, and Part 2, the minuses:
It’s [...]
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