Date: March 25th, 2008

The economics of water: Part 1, piping invents cities

25 March, 2008 (11:09) | Cities, History, Infrastructure, Multipart posts, Urbanization | No comments

As you know, with my work for Slum Dwellers International, and more broadly on affordable housing in the global south, I’ve been progressively more interested in the finance of basic urban infrastructure, particularly water and sanitation, because if housing is what makes cities, water and sanitation is what makes housing habitable, and hence what controls [...]