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	<title>Don Tishman&#039;s Real Estate Development and Investing Solutions</title>
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		<title>Afghanistan- another view</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received this email from Australia about our activity in Afghanistan. Afghanistan &#8220;In my opinion, Afghanistan is a lost cause.  I have been there several times in the late 70s and it was an eye-opener.  The Germans had invested quite a bit of aid money in infrastructure (Hitler thought the Afghans were the true Aryans) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sub-prime disaster-not banks or S&amp;L&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sale of syndicated home mortgages by unscrupulous sellers contributed to the severe economic hardships suffered world wide. Bank regulators at all levels set the standards for home loans. The bank examiners test bank loans to enforce these standards. How then do we have this overwhelming mountain of homes facing foreclosure? where were the bank [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tishmangroup.com/?p=1008&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=sub-prime-disaster-not-banks-or-sls</link>
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		<title>future for architects, contractors, engineers, retailers,etc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The June, 2010 construction industry employment figures are depressing. HISTORICALLY, The summer is the best time for construction jobs. Yet, the figures for last month show a DROP in construction jobs. The same month saw thousands of college graduations for majors in architecture, construction management, planning, real estate, civil engineering, finance, etc.. Their parents and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real estate development fundamentals- good and bad times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When determining whether there is a demand for  new real estate development, we look for unmet needs.  in other words does the demand for a particular real estate use far exceed the supply. A good indication is: no vacant apartments, , no empty offices,  no vacant stores or  no unsold inventory of homes.  Lack of demand is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Federal regulation work?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let &#8216;s look at some recent results of the Federal regulation.  When I recall recent examples of Federal attempts at regulation, I think of Enron, Madoff, Goldman-Sachs, A.I.G., coal mines, off shore oil wells, Katrina, etc. I am sorry but these results do not  inspire my confidence in the ability of our government to protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ULI- real estate business barometer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The summary of  the Urban Land Institute Real Estate Business Barometer for this week. Key news in the latest ULI Barometer includes a number of economic improvements tempered by some weak or worsening indicators. These, together with the recent Greek debt crisis and early May&#8217;s stock market volatility, suggest further unpredictability and slower-than-desired expansion ahead. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>improvements for architecture, construction, and development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The magazine Architecture lists 10 things that can improve architecture, construction, and development in the next 10 years . Here is their list with some comments by me 1. Technology: Buckminster Fuller’s concept of “ephemeralization”—that technology gets smaller as it gets more sophisticated—could go extreme, and energy systems could appear to disappear. Green buildings would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survival -no oil spills, mine cave-ins, and contaminated air</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our communities must eliminate oil spills, mine cave-ins, and contaminated air for our children and grandchildren to survive. Recent news stories have described the recent disasters involving carbon products.  Let us look a little closer. Why did recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico occur? One reason is the U.S. demand for domestic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Incredible Hagia Sophia- a masterpiece dedicated in 360 A.D.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hagia Sophia was dedicated as Catherdral Baiscillica in 360 A.D. On 23 February 532, only a few days after the destruction of the second basilica, Emperor Justinian I took the decision to build a third and entirely different basilica, larger and more majestic than its predecessors. Justinian chose the physicist Isidore of Miletusand the mathematician Anthemius of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vitruvius was himself an architect. In Roman times architecture was a broader subject than at present including the modern fields of architecture, construction management, construction engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, military engineering and urban planning. Palladio said  about the perfect home-&#8221; The need for a structure that is magnificent, yet inexpensive; [...]]]></description>
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