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Why were these first meters so popular? Because they reduced overcrowding and hassle, but also because they increased turnover, ensuring more customers per hour. The result was more sales and dramatically higher downtown property values.
Jeff Speck • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
amazon.com
Christopher Pergolizzi
@pergonomics
the decline of corporate structures that emphasized group affiliation has fostered a resurgence in the Protestant ethic, but in its contemporary version this ethic returns as both entrepreneurial and artistic, rational and expressive.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
Heath Raftery
@hraftery
Edward Burtynsky
en.m.wikipedia.org
the small industries of the inner cities were being replaced by artists and the smooth affluence that sometimes follows and imitates artists.
Rebecca Solnit • A Field Guide to Getting Lost
travel redistribution.”