Questions:

Why does the last cohort cut from 2,300 and shoot up to almost 160,000 people per square mile. Seems to me this is where it gets interesting. I would like to know of the zip location that yields the upper end “per square mile”. but left with tracking one zip at a time through NYC as the logical place to look.

When it comes to managing urban growth and land use, the police powers invested in inclusive and preventative urban planning are seriously undeveloped. The fear is these powers inhibit investment, but the truth of the matter lies within the completely defensive aim of knowledge, the primary purpose of which is to secure proprietary wealth. The demand on the one who must “beware” is therefore the buyer.

The invalidation of the “caveat emptor” rule is widely recognized and there are good economic reasons for this, but the one word answer is globalization. Leaping into places in very short periods, especially those attempting to be ahead of their time is the story of marketing. Buckminster Fuller liked getting people to peer into these kinds of windows. He well known for illustrating a seamless join of architecture and science. He was one of the first to do so, calling it, “comprehensive anticipatory design science” as if it meant something less jargonistic and of course it does, but not in the sense that he wanted.

Bucky’s world offered the opportunity to establish a “modern life” through industrial design. More accurately, he marks the beginning of human material consumption at levels that have become so great that it may be impossible to stop. It is expressed as an annual consumption of “earths” that human consume that are beyond its replacement capacity. Bucky’s architecture clouds his more important legacy. It is that of a planner who discovered the power of inclusion and prediction. When asked if he would to go on a space ship he replied no, he was already on one and he called it “the world game”.

The 1998 Nobel Prize in economic science was awarded to this Master of Trinity College in Cambridge for his examination of capital market economics and its relationship to the humanity of political decision-making.

The chapter that caught added media attention focused on the crucial role democracy might play in preventing hunger by pointing out that a functioning multi-party democracy has never experienced a famine.

His search is for processes that link freedom and democracy lies somewhere between the power of central planning and the “race to the bottom” produced by the inhumanity of unbridled capitalism. Raising people’s income may be less important than a foundation of political rights that guarantee expression without fear. This freedom allows for the provision substantive exressions that help societies come to terms with economic realities and when needed “choose” protective security such as an expanded public sector employment and in-come subsidies.

Economic and political justice is a promise to not obstruct the full exercise of the individual’s capacity to make the best of themselves, not a guarantee for the achievement of a specific or state predetermined lifestyle. Sen asks, “Why should the status of intense economic needs, which can be matters of life and death, be lower than that of personal liberty?” It is the expression of these needs in the political arena of decision-making that injects an ethical dimension to the choice of methods for solving economic problems.

With this underlying principle, the measures taken by political systems that are grounded by democratic pluralism seem to offer the world the best bet at making economic prosperity a recurrent phenomenon. With this kind of common sense built into the public realm, political actors may be given the opportunity to be more like Sisyphus and less like Caesar.

http://lawoftheland.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/new-york-state-bar-association-task-force-on-eminent-domain-issues-final-report/

Housing as Dormitory. Urban Design Implications

The rapid turnover, congregate living styles, and a guaranteed, self-renewing supply for rented accomodations all suggest a submarket of housing based on the idea of “replacement demand”. The committee needs to find researchers who have taken up the task of defining the impact of universities on the NYC housing market.

Any leads are appreciated so that “findings” can be explored.