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Review: Pocket Neighborhoods
Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World. I rely on architecture books to get my creative fix. Ross Chapin’s “pocket neighborhoods” are of particular interest to me as my professional life focuses on how communities can address instability … Continue reading
Woonerf.
From Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World by Ross Chapmin (full review coming up): Although a lane is a narrow road for cars that is easily shared with pedestrians, a “woonerf” is a pedestrian space reluctantly shared … Continue reading
Bailouts for Morgan Stanley Chairman’s Wife
Another excellent Taibbi piece. Quotes: The Fed sent billions in bailout aid to banks in places like Mexico, Bahrain and Bavaria, billions more to a spate of Japanese car companies, more than $2 trillion in loanseach to Citigroup and Morgan … Continue reading
On Exploding Higher Education
I’ve argued for a while that India’s Institutes of Technology and Management should be exploded so as to distribute the benefits to more and more people. Pete Thiel’s thinking along the same lines: He thinks it’s fundamentally wrong for a … Continue reading
Incompetance or Corruption?
Jonathan Weil on Citigroup: The gist of the regulator’s findings: Citigroup’s internal controls were a mess. So were its valuation methods for subprime mortgage bonds, which had spawned record losses at the bank. Among other things, “weaknesses were noted with … Continue reading