From 1803 until 1890, a French worker who wanted to change jobs had to carry a small booklet, the livret d'ouvrier. Each employer wrote in it the date the worker was hired and the date they left, and a worker […]
Ask why a given American city sorts land into "single-family residential," "commercial," and "industrial," and the honest answer is rarely a planning theory. It's history, mostly forgotten, doing the work a theory is usually credited with. […]