Date: October 12th, 2007

There ain’t no such thing as free infrastructure: Part 3, Partnership

12 October, 2007 (08:55) | Markets, Municipal, Theory | No comments

[Continued from the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]
 
So far we’ve seen that when cities grow big enough, they need to install municipal infrastructure, especially water and sanitation; and that expecting the private sector to cover all this cost, for all a city’s denizens, is unrealistic.
 

 
Instead, places like Philadelphia and San Francisco announced “private/public” partnerships. [...]