Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
This is a story of land invasion.
Do you have permits for this?
In utter defiance of the law, a band of informal settlers have chosen to occupy and develop land in defiance of the law.
A tale from Istanbul, you ask?
Gecekondu in Alanya, Turkey
Or Sao Paulo?
Sao Paulo: Land invasion immediately adjacent to …
Sao Paulo: slum redevelopment [...]
Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the previous Part 1.]
For two posts now we’ve been following, via the Town Manager’s April 28, 2009 Report to Town Council (pdf) in Woodside, California, the eight-year saga of patient homeowner Steve Jobs, who is merely seeking to do what 99.9% of American would think an inalienable right, namely [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
In yesterday’s post, via the Town Manager’s April 28, 2009 Report to Town Council (pdf) in Woodside, California, we met patient homeowner Steve Jobs, who has for eight years been seeking to demolish a property he owns and plainly regards as a white elephant, a rambling 17,000-square foot Spanish Colonial Revival [...]
Can Mephistopheles be thwarted?
“Can you believe the nerve of Steve Jobs?”
“What’d he do?”
“Moves into the neighborhood, immediately announces he intends to demolish a lovely 6,000 square foot house so he can build a rambling anachronistic 17,000 square foot house, three times as large.”
“No!”
“The old house was invisible in the landscape; the new one’s going to [...]
Every now and then, the little guys win one, and when they do, as in this day-in-the-life farce reported in a recent Washington Post article, the resulting splutters reveal some folks’ unbalanced view of rules – namely that they’re things I write and you obey.
To many in Old Town Alexandria, the sex shop that [...]
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