In coming weeks, our blog will be looking at Smart Cities Advisors’ 2014 urban investment themes in emerging and developing markets. SCA is all about urban impact investment and social enterprise in developing countries – still an early concept, still developing, but urgent, inevitable and promising. Our 2014 […]
Read more →Architecture for Humanity has now posted sign-like-you-give-a-damn-live”>updates and media files from Design Like You Give A Damn: Live! DLYGAD Live unites designers, architects, planners, community based NGOs, public sector practitioners and a few investors to reflect on smart, responsive, inclusive design in marginalized communities. In this alone, it achieves what few […]
Read more →One of the wonderful things about SOCAP is that entrepreneurs, investors, companies, NGOs, researchers and students from diverse universes can come together to share ideas, solve problems and co-create. For me, it meant connecting with folks not just in housing and urban investment but also in parallel, […]
Read more →En la última publicación sobre vivienda social en América Latina, concluimos que ofrecer vivienda de calidad continua siendo un reto complejo (Buscando el balance entre calidad y cantidad) ¿Por qué es necesario ofrecer calidad a un cliente que tan solo por salir del asentamiento informal está mejorando […]
Read more →In our last blog post on the quality of the supply of affordable housing in Latin America, we concluded that providing quality housing remains a complex challenge (Finding the balance between quantity and quality). Why is quality even important if the customer’s life will improve just by […]
Read more →With writing, research and editorial assistance from Valerie Stahl, Summer 2011 Smart Cities Advisors intern At SOCAP Europe this past week, I had the pleasure to talk to Jackie Vanderbrug of Criterion Venture’s Women Effect Investments initiative about how monitoring and evaluation efforts need to integrate gender […]
Read more →With research and writing assistance from Estephani Garcia The eighth annual Mexican Housing Day (February 10, 2011) in New York City and London gave the government, financial institutions and publicly listed (not the vast majority of unlisted developers and builders) housing developers a chance to crow about […]
Read more →The NYU Schack Institute’s panel, Latin American Real Estate Markets in the Near Future, highlighted where the smart money is going in real estate development in the region. Since real estate investment has to be part of a longer-term strategy, sentiment among these investors can be a […]
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