Palaces for the people
This isn't about Amazon and the massive subsidies that New York State is bestowing on the Jeff Bezos's off-world colony in Queens, but it's worth reading with that situation in mind: A look at the argument made by New York University sociologist Eric Klinenberg that investment in what he describes as "social infrastructure" -- public spaces such as libraries, parks, swimming pools, community gardens -- are vital for healthy neighborhoods, cities, and civic life and work against forces such as inequality and polarization. [Bloomberg]
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