http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us Affordable Housing Institue Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:40:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   By: David A. Smith   Yesterday we encountered sad New London, Connecticut, whose expansionist dream has died with Pfizer's announcement it is closing its plant and moving the jobs to nearby Groton.  Some, like The Washington Examiner, see in this a redemptive tale of brave and plucky small ... http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2009/11/eminent-domain-collective-failure-part-2-the-company-loses.html By: David A. Smith   The soaring plans for New London's revitalization finally died last week [November 11, 2009 – Ed.], and in failure's aftermath the opponents of eminent domain for economic development (ED4ED) cannot resist gloating, as illustrated by this story in The Washington Examiner:   Pfizer deserts its monument to corporate welfare   No ... http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2009/11/eminent-domain-collective-failure-part-1-the-city-loses.html By: David A. Smith   "Either you bring the water to LA or you bring LA to the water." – Noah Cross, Chinatown   "'Course I'm respectable.  I'm old."   Someday I'll post in detail about Chinatown, because it (and its spiritual cousin, True Confessions) is a great film about housing development and municipal infrastructure, whose economic ... http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2009/11/bring-the-city-to-the-people.html  [Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]    By: David A. Smith   It's taken three days' worth of posting to describe the three days' worth of disaster-recovery reblocking that occurred at Joe Slovo township in Cape Town, and like the reblocking, we weren't quite done in that ... http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2009/11/the-urban-palimpsest-part-4-writing-the-lessons.html [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the previous Part 1.]   By: David A. Smith   Within twenty-four hours of a fire that destroyed more than 5900 homes in the Cape Town informal settlement of Joe Slovo, more progress had been made in community redevelopment than had been accomplished in the previous fifteen years' ... http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2009/11/the-urban-palimpsest-part-3-building-the-grid.html