Date: November 18th, 2009

Bring the city to the people

18 November, 2009 (11:53) | Cities, Global news, Infrastructure, Philippines, Slums, Speculation | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 
“Either you bring the water to LA or you bring LA to the water.”
– Noah Cross, Chinatown

 

“‘Course I’m respectable.  I’m old.”
 
Someday I’ll post in detail about Chinatown, because it (and its spiritual cousin, True Confessions) is a great film about housing development and municipal infrastructure, whose economic power did much to define [...]