Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Concluded from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] As we saw in yesterday’s blog post, Turkey’s government has now adopted urban regeneration as an urgent national priority – to reduce disaster risk, to protect the nation’s economy, and to improve cities’ efficiency for global competitiveness. My panel [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post covered the first half of Turkish Minister for the Environment and Urban Planning Erdogan Bayraktar’s 10 May 2012 speech to the Turkish National Real Estate Association (Gyoder)’s annual conference in Istanbul, where I was once again a featured speaker. In his opening remarks [...]
By:David A. Smith Van, Turkey, October, 2011: never again? A few weeks back, on 10 May 2012 (and after a welcome weeklong vacation on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast), I was once again a featured panelist at the Turkish National Real Estate Association (Gyoder)’s annual conference in Istanbul. The banner reads, Real Estate Conference, [...]
[Previous Months in Review available here: Oct 11, Sep 11, Aug 11, Jul 11, Jun 11, May 11, Apr 11, Mar 11, Feb 11, Jan 11] By:David A. Smith Even paranoiacs have enemies, though In November I indulged in a flight of fancy that, since I’m still alive, must have been [...]
[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 [...]
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