[Themaintainers] Legal Battle Over Crumbling Sidewalks Unfolds In Atlanta : NPR

[Andrew Meade McGee]

 Thanks for sharing this. Sidewalks are the sort of mundane-but-necessary,
ever-underfoot infrastructure that embody many of the dilemmas of
maintaining the "public commons" in a complex modern society.

In Pittsburgh we have the added wrinkle of municipality-maintained
staircases:

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/12/563606283/the-crumbling-stairs-of-pittsburgh

Best,
Andrew


On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 7:31 PM, Camille E. Acey <connect at camilleacey.com>
wrote:

> Despite the fact that I dont even drive anymore, I've become so accustomed
> to conversations about infrastructure just being about roads and bridges
> that I completely forgot about our precious sidewalks!
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> https://www.npr.org/2018/08/14/638629421/legal-battle-
> over-crumbling-sidewalks-unfolds-in-atlanta?ft=nprml&f=
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> Camille E. Acey
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> that is an act of political warfare." - Audre Lorde
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