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Dharavi, the fixable slum: Part 1, the deal
There’s nothing wrong with Dharavi, India‘s largest slum … … that demolishing it entirely won’t cure. That, at least, appears to be the prevailing view of Mumbai’s municipal government, as reported...
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Dharavi, the fixable slum: Part 2, why it works
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] Yesterday we saw that Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, is about to be comprehensively redeveloped — wiped clean, as it were — and transformed. All this is to come...
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Dharavi, the fixable slum: Part 3, more of why it works
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] Yesterday we listed half a dozen contributing factors to Dharavi’s revival. There are more: 7. Capital finance is plentiful. The tenants...
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The value of foreclosure
“The only thing worse than being talked about Is not being talked about.” — Oscar Wilde This is how I assure I am talked about Foreclosure summons up in our minds the most heartbreaking bathetic...
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Starving for yield?
Every now and then, an article makes me sit up and think twice. Such a piece is an extravagant speculation by columnist Spengler that I came across in the Asia Times, with the curious title of “The...
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