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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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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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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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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 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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