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These were my streets now, with their traffic and lights and dangers and life. I was a City woman, a free woman. That night I was an owner. I owned the City. I owned the future.
Five Ways to Forgiveness
Ursula K. Le Guin
The world’s largest such system, in east Kolkata in India, involves the city’s sewage feeding the fish. It saves the city approximately $22m (£17m) a year in running costs for a waste treatment plant. The water can be used for irrigation, saving a further £500,000 in water and fertiliser costs. And it enables much of the city’s food to be grown locally.
The Case for ... Making Low-Tech 'Dumb' Cities Instead of 'Smart' Ones
theguardian.com
Housing is “the wheel within the wheel to move the whole economic engine,” said Marriner Eccles, Roosevelt’s Federal Reserve chairman.
Lessons From a Renters’ Utopia
nytimes.com
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