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Maintenance and Care
according to the research,40 general disrepair and blight are indeed factors that correlate with the suffering (and yes, crime) of a community.
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Hayward and Swanstrom argue that when injustice is tied up with the physical spaces of cities and the policies that create them, it becomes “difficult to assign responsibility for it—and hence difficult to change.” That’s why the curb cut’s history—a successful “editing” of the built environment that arrived via mandate of federal law—is so impress
... See moreSara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
What if we understood that, much like a world would cease to be a world without ongoing preservation, a bridge would cease to be a bridge if we allowed it to crumble and fall instead of actively reinforcing it? Would we spend our resources differently? What if we saw conservation not just as a matter of routine but as existentially creative? Perhap... See more