Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 21, 2022
2004. When I was involved in the early days of H Street Main Street, a commercial district revitalization initiative for the H Street corridor in Northeast DC, one of the activities my committee did was a monthly litter cleanup. I didn't want to do it--because the litter just comes back--but it was important to respond to the expressed needs of the volunteer committee members.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 21, 2022
I have a piece about why the Manhattan Institute is wrong in saying that light rail systems shouldn't prioritize connections to airports (" Manhattan Institute misses the point about the value of light rail transit connections to airports | Utility and the network effect: the transit network as a platform "), making the point that the more key nodes within a metropolitan area are served by transit, the more useful is the system.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 21, 2022
Britain has created big problems by privatizing its water and sewage systems, abetted by minimal regulation and even more minimal fines which seem to have zero punitive power in getting the companies to follow the law. Since privatization, more than half the net profit has been returned as dividends to the private owners, while investment in infrastructure languishes (" Water privatization: a dirty story about profit ," " Watery grave ," and " Water firms exist to sustain life.
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