From Real Estate History
25 January 1575 marks the formal foundation of Luanda on the western coast of Africa by the Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator Paulo Dias de Novais. The settlement was originally named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, a designation that was later shortened to Luanda. At the time of its establishment in 1575, Luanda was a small col...
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Amid the continuing economic crisis, President Herbert Hoover inaugurated the White House Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership today in Washington. The nationwide conference brought together more than three thousand specialists in construction, housing finance, urban planning and land law. The opening session emphasised that although the ...
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On October 8 1871 a catastrophic fire broke out in Chicago Illinois destroying over 17 000 buildings across 3.3 square miles and leaving 100 000 people homeless. Fueled by wooden construction strong winds and months of drought the flames raged for two days and claimed more than 300 lives. The financial losses exceeded 200 million dollars making it ...
Read More →On November 9, 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall triggered one of the most transformative urban renewal movements in modern Europe. East Berlin’s neglected housing blocks, relics of socialist planning, were rapidly integrated into a unified national redevelopment agenda. The German government launched a multi-billion-mark program to restore apart...
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In 1947, the partition of the subcontinent divided Bengal into two parts, West Bengal and East Bengal, later known as East Pakistan. The system of land ownership had been severely disrupted. Large scale migration left millions of acres of land without resident owners, as many had crossed the newly drawn borders. These abandoned properties quickl...
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The acquisition of land for the Model Town Society was one of the most remarkable and spirited chapters in its early history. Dewan Khem Chand and his...
Between 1921 and 1924, the land for Model Town Lahore was acquired in successive phases. The process began in 1921, shortly after the establishment of...