The Deleted Scenes - New and Old #99
Looking at a 1919 book on housing policy by Edith Elmer Wood, Schneider writes:
That’s a pretty fascinating and invisible reason for high housing costs: cheap stuff—arguably or potentially dangerous stuff—isn’t allowed to be built, and what is considered too beneath an American standard of living rises over time, creating a high floor for the poorest Americans. The analogy here is something like this: “Every American deserves to eat lobster and caviar every night, so we’ll ban all that other junk.” The result, of course, is that anyone who cannot afford lobster and caviar will starve. Now Schneider goes on to say that Wood is not making a libertarian argument that the poor have a “right” to live in dangerous buildings at great personal risk. Rather, her point was that government needed to build or fund affordable housing to help fill in the gap left by ever-increasing minimum standards. It’s a really interesting thesis, and there’s more here. Read the whole thing. Wednesday Walk: Big Box Party, Willoughby Hills, Heath Racela, January 25, 2023
Heath writes a great, idiosyncratic newsletter, and this bit made my ears perk up. It isn’t “urbanism,” is it? But it’s part of this big question of what comes next for these single-use, underutilized spaces we’ve massively overbuilt in this country. Good stuff. Why Sherlock Holmes Can Finally Smile, Roy Schwartz, IGN, January 10, 2023
Copyright/IP stuff can get nutty, and this is a fun diversion of a story. Give it a read. Tivoli Henry Kloss Model One teardown & repair, Khron’s Cave, September 3, 2019 I found this neat blog post because I found this radio (that’s what the Tivoli Henry Kloss Model One is) in a thrift store. It’s a solid, heavy, elegant radio, but I plugged it in and got nothing but awful noise. So I looked up the problem, and this blog post came up. It’s fun and heavily illustrated post on the good and bad of this radio. The overall blog is heavy on electronics teardowns and such. Check it out, if it interests you. (And check out the piece I wrote about blogs, which are really a neat information-sharing format.) Related Reading: Thank you for reading! Please consider upgrading to a paid subscription to help support this newsletter. You’ll get a weekly subscribers-only post, plus full access to the archive: over 500 posts and growing. And you’ll help ensure more material like this! You're currently a free subscriber to The Deleted Scenes. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |
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