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 1.]
“Do I have litigation exposure?”
“Only if you’re sued.”
Yesterday, according to the New York Times, it was raining water leaks. Today it’s raining torts:
When a building is clearly out of compliance, talk quickly turns to lawsuits.
In spring, a young litigator’s fancy lightly turns to those of torts.
“The queen of [...]
By: David A. Smith
They’re called zabaleen, after an Arabic phrase meaning ‘garbage people’, and you wouldn’t want to be one:
Most of the inhabitants of Garbage City are Coptic Christians.
An estimated 60,000 – 70,000 Zabaleen live in an area known locally as Garbage City, and are mostly descendants of poor farmers from Upper Egypt who settled [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday I described some basic insights from my two days in London, participating as one of about thirty practitioners in a Gates Foundation roundtable on the subject of WS&H: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.
It’s good for you, and good for the world
[For more context, see my seven-part exploration of the economics of [...]
Two days in the workshop
During June, I spent two days of vacation allowance (”it is well known that you have an unusual sense of fun,” as an Army buddy says to T. E. Lawrence early in the film) in London, participating as one of about thirty practitioners in a Gates Foundation roundtable on the subject [...]
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