<strong>By: Robert Curry, Harvard Business School Class of 2011</strong>
At the January 2011 ICLRD conference, one of sessions focused on <a href="../../web/2011-conference/session-2/" target="_blank">Planning for Homes and Communities</a> and featured <a href="http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/people/nic_retsinas.html" target="_blank">Prof. Nic Retsinas</a> of the Harvard Business School. Prof. Retsinas subsequently supervised a  final year research project by Mr. Robert Curry at the Harvard Business  School. ICLRD helped to facilitate this research and is pleased to make  Mr. Curry’s research available. As he notes, other countries, including  the US, Sweden, and Japan faced similar crises in the past. The  countries that most successfully addressed these problems acted swiftly  and with broad political support. In learning from these past crises, he  indicates that local communities can proactively approach banks, NAMA  and property owners with a plan and support for failed developments.
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