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A desire named streetcar: Part 1, the virtue of speed
By:David A. Smith Usually packed, by the way Tourists like to idle through a city. Commuters want to groove through it. Perhaps that idealization of the perky tourist hub is the reason so...
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A desire named streetcar: Part 2, the defect of congestion
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] Yesterday, using as source material a discursive exposition by Samuel L. Scheib in Reason (October, 2012), we traveled through the birth,...
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A desire named streetcar: Part 3, the charm of idling
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] In the first age of streetcars, 1875 to 1925, as documented by Samuel L. Scheib in Reason (October, 2012), they...
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The family compound: Part 1, Expanding the property
By:David A. Smith My years working on slums, slum formalization, and slum upgrading have opened my eyes to two urban phenomena – informality and urban evolution – that are seemingly invisible to...
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The family compound: Part 2, Expanding the family
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] Yesterday post using as source an interesting if oblivious Wall Street Journal (June 3, 2013) article showed that when a city is facing...
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