Sublime

When the public sector leads, vacant space becomes an embarrassment instead of an immediate fiscal crisis. The human need to fill the space, at whatever cost, is not conducive to good decision-making. Worst of all, putting all the public improvements into a finished state before any private investment has occurred merely ensures that the city will

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While there is a body of research that suggests that public housing is correlated with crime, it remains unclear if it is the buildings’ design, the social organization of public housing,21 its mismanagement,22 or the land-use patterns around these places that promotes crime.23 Weighing the relative impact of these possible causal factors is import

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I ran the numbers; it would take 37 years of my neighbors and I paying taxes for the city to merely recoup the cost they had initially put into building the road. That was longer than the road was going to last. It was a dead-end road; we were the only ones who used it. If my taxes weren’t even enough to cover the initial construction costs, who wa

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