This is not tinkering at the edges and small-scale development cannot achieve this.
At the same time, the government needs to press ahead with its proposed planning reforms, including a presumption in favour of small-scale development".
Regionally, the rules should benefit New York City's watershed, where thousands of acres essential to the purity of the city's water supply are threatened by small-scale development.
When it comes to difficult funding decisions for arts and culture, there are no large- or small-scale development bodies to be culled to protect frontline services this time round.
Moses' approach to urban development gradually became unpopular in the 1950s and '60s as community concern shifted from further expansion of the urban infrastructure to the preservation of existing neighbourhoods by the use of unobtrusive, small-scale development.
"The limited supply of opportunities for small-scale development is one of a number of key structural constraints that has seen the number of homes built by SMEs decline from around two-thirds in the late 1980s to less than a quarter today".
But the range of ideas on the table is fairly narrow: reducing the size of commissions paid to companies that transfer the money, drawing immigrants to the traditional bank and financial system so more of the money is saved and made available for loans, and using those savings for specific small-scale development programs.
But Mongolia has also tapped Western knowledge, copying the model of Norway to set up a National Development Fund to distribute shares of mineral profits to the people, and hiring the prominent Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, an expert on property rights and small-scale development.
In return for the tribe's pledge, the Americans are offering cash-for-work programs to employ large numbers of young people from the tribe as well as small-scale development projects, according to Maj. T. J. Taylor, a public affairs officer.
Our judgment is that education about some agile practices could be beneficial for small-scale development.
