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Elevators, the vertical utility: Part 5, Impact on cities, infrastructure,...
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 4 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.] By:David A. Smith The inventory goes down the elevator every night. –Fairfax Cone Sources for this post...
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Elevators, the vertical utility: Part 6, Impact on mores
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 5 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.] By:David A. Smith When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes...
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Elevators, the vertical utility: Part 7, Impact on the future city
[Concluded from yesterday’s Part 6 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.] By:David A. Smith People recognize me, but they don’t know where from. Today I was in the elevator and...
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Month in review: April, 2014: Part 1, A blogger’s thoughts should exceed his...
[Previous Months in Review available here: Mar 14, Feb 14, Jan 14] By: David A. Smith Great artists work out their ideas in cartoons: Well, I’m no Raphael Inventors brainstorm in sketchbooks: Not a...
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Month in review: April, 2014: Part 2, Or what’s a hyperlink for?
[Previous Months in Review available here: Mar 14, Feb 14, Jan 14] [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Yesterday’s Part 1 of this two-part review of April’s posts noted that a...
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Built upon the lands of time: Part 1, Land value = Property value
By: David A. Smith This post has a hero – and an unlikely one to be spotlighted in a story from The New York Times (12 June 2015) – an investment banker: Who was that unmasked man? Marc Cooper knew...
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Built upon the lands of time: Part 2, The Rule of Four-Sevenths
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By: David A. Smith End of lease approaching In yesterday’s Part 1 chronicling the happy if expensive ending of a 32-year saga of a co-op that ‘forgot’ to buy the...
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Built upon the lands of time: Part 3, 8.2% annual appreciation for 32 years
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Rio Sand Castle After capital reinvetsment While the story reported in The New York Times (12 June 2015) of the Tower –...
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