Affordable Housing Institute : US

[The original post may be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7.]
 
We saw yesterday that cities grow when they have more clean water, and that increasing water supply means mastering technology, law and government, and finance. It’s almost as if the physical difficulties of […]

Not only does the availability and amount of clean water control the size of cities, management of water resources has been a principal driver in advances in technology, law and government, and finance.
 

The most basic of needs
 
That idea formed itself as I read, and then re-read, a terrific law article Thirst: A Short History of […]

[Continued from the previous Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6.]
 
As we’ve seen so far in this extended series on the economics of water taking off from Duke law professor Jim Salzman’s article Thirst: A Short History of Drinking Water, since housing is what makes cities, infrastructure – […]

[Continued from the previous Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.]
 
As we’ve seen so far in this extended series on the economics of water taking off from Duke law professor Jim Salzman’s article Thirst: A Short History of Drinking Water, since housing is what makes cities, infrastructure – at its most […]

[Continued from the previous Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.]
 
As we’ve seen so far in this extended series on the economics of water, since housing is what makes cities, for cities to scale upward, they have to bring infrastructure to their slums.  The Roman emperors, who needed larger capital to administer a […]