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If that seems a little too authoritarian, understand that this is how most of the United States was originally built. Only, it wasn’t government; it was trading monopolies and railroad companies. For the latter, the railroad would acquire land for a town where they intended to put a train stop. As they developed the rail line, they would sell the l

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A certain ‘pathos’ does emerge from these stories, which suggests something amiss in parish life. The problem can be traced back to the decline of the role of the landed elite, which began as early as the 1500s. In The Agrarian Problem in the 16th Century (1912), R.H. Tawney argued that Tudor landowners changed the terms of paternalistic governance... See more

John Locke, who held that individuals had a right to turn natural resources that belonged to no one into individual property for personal use, through labor. The Lockean idea justified all manner of accomplishments and violations in American history, including the colonial seizure of Native lands and the justification of resource extraction via the

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We have made home ownership the cornerstone of Singapore’s public housing policy – the vast majority of the population own, not rent, their homes. Ownership is critical because we were an immigrant community with no common history. Our peoples came from many different parts of Asia. Home ownership helped to quickly forge a sense of rootedness in Si

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It started for me in 1946 when I enrolled at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology to study. The Chifley Government provided free tertiary training for every ex-serviceman who would apply for it.

Enrollment day at the RMIT saw about two hundred applicants crowding into the Architecture School to be assigned to their study groups. I had done pa... See more