While dropping the kids off at school, I saw a bus picking up kids for a different school. We waited patiently as they clamored aboard and took their seats. Eventually, the flashing red arm folded up and the bus was on its way. Something occurred to me during this brief moment:
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Life in da big city, and in Saint Paul as well.
Access
There was a time in big cities when access appeared to be everything. Maintaining a dense urban core was about developing jobs or attractions that drew large crowds. The key problem was moving large crowds of people in and out of the urban core.
Street Life
One of the great changes in my life has been the loss of an active life on the street. Part of this is due to my moving from Miami to Saint Paul, the latter being a rather cold and quiet city. Some of this is a decline in a public life for everyone that I find disturbing.
Small World
I’ve heard a few stories, large and small, about how the recent turmoil is effecting the global financial markets that I’d like to tell you about. Together, they paint a picture of just what can go wrong when too much is never enough.
Fairness
Fairness is an important concept in this thing we call Civilization. If we all lived as hunters and gatherers on the grasslands, we wouldn’t have a lot of interaction with large groups of people. The inevitable disputes that arise could be settled by a simple code or the intervention of an elder.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 