Makerhoods: Creating Economic Opportunity through Communities. | Avi Telyas | TEDxJerseyCity

The war on poverty has been lost, at least in its mission to increase self-sufficiency, primarily because the built environment was not designed for self-employment. From the earliest mill towns to today’s metropolis, cities are designed for wage employment with distinct employment and residential zones. Makerhoods.org was founded to reduce this barrier by constructing urban work/live and mixed use developments specifically designed for low to moderate income entrepreneurs. Coupled with a business development support system, a Makerhood community is structured to offer meaningful self-employment for an urban population with few alternate opportunities for work.
Avi Telyas is an American real estate developer, serial entrepreneur and pioneer in lean manufacturing and large scale modular construction. His passion for architecture and craft entrepreneurship has led him to found the organization called Makerhoods, an organization which advocates for urban land use policies that foster self-employment and self-sufficiency through affordable working and living space for low income urban entrepreneurs. Mr. Telyas is a 1986 graduate of the Harvard Business School and a former trustee of Pratt Institute.
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[@AlmostAny1]

I like the direction of this talk, active ground floor use is extremely important to the health of a new development. This concept won't work on every corner but those that have the traffic and access to transit to support mixed use should certainly be developing that way.

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I think this is interesting. I do wonder if it would work though. Selling $300/day of pillows sounds tough.

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This was figured out by the romans a loooong time ago

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Finishing schools and need with economic development.

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Well said! Thanks for the interesting perspective

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Good idea... but it could be improved upon.

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Genio ! De eso se trata

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Shipping Containers in the City and Earthships in the Countryside.

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