Lyneir Richardson is a man with a mission. His goal is to help 1,000 urban entrepreneurs grow their businesses, through a nine-month program run by the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED) at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ. The program, where diversity abounds, has enrolled about 400 entrepreneurs so far. As executive director of CUEED, … [Read more...] about 1,000 urban entrepreneurs.
Development
Small versus big.
There's a history to small-scale development. It's what we did for centuries until industrial modernism brought large-scale development to our cities. Large-scale development The scale and cost of large developments falls into the realm of large-scale developers, and not always good ones. They have been the protagonists in the rapid transformation of our urban … [Read more...] about Small versus big.
Catalytic in Appalachia.
Generational poverty is a complex problem with no single, easy-to-apply solution. Unlike circumstantial poverty, resulting from a specific event, like an illness or temporary loss of a job, generational poverty involves multiple generations of family and community lacking either the accumulated assets, education or resources on which to build. And in Appalachia, this … [Read more...] about Catalytic in Appalachia.
The lost art of small-scale development.
Jim Kumon co-founded and leads the Incremental Development Alliance, launched in 2015 as a collaboration between two small scale developers who found that people kept asking them the same question: how do I build a small building in the place I love? They joined with Jim to create an organization with the goal of “resurrecting the small developer.” They built a suite of … [Read more...] about The lost art of small-scale development.
The power of modular building.
As builders, architects, urban planners all look for innovative ways to create both affordable and sustainable housing, some new homeowners have been looking to the efficiencies of modular construction as one potential solution. While pre-fab (for pre-fabrication) is a general term for building components that are created in a factory to be assembled on site, modular … [Read more...] about The power of modular building.