Drew Reed
Drew Reed is a writer and sustainable transportation advocate. He currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is a graduate student in urban planning at the University of Buenos Aires.
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The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 3: Jane Jacobs for the entitled, Robert Moses for everyone else
Drew Reed reports on plans to demolish informal areas in the Argentine capital and replace them with mixed housing and green space projects, and the life of one man at the centre of the struggle against these plans.
The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 2: the terminal
While the government is providing new infrastructure for wealthy and middle-class commuters to enjoy their combi commutes in comfort, they are squeezing low-income commuters out of the city.
The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 1: street markets and free markets
Drew Reed takes us on a walk through downtown Buenos Aires to see how the mayor Mauricio Macri's policy of formalising informal traders is being undermined by the free trade principles he normally espouses.
Has the "broken windows" theory of policing finally been fixed?
New research suggests that the successes of the "broken windows" theory in reducing crime might have been down to coincidences including, interestingly, the removal of lead from gasoline.
Voted out of town on a rail: LA's bad planning, of, by and for the people
How a poorly maintained rail system drove LA voters into the hands of the automobile.
LA’s bad planning, brought to you by voters: knocking the poor out of the park
A democracy is only as good as the people who participate in it. How the Dodgers Stadium displaced working-class residents from Chavez Ravine.
Next stop Villa 31: the politics of placing a subway station in a Buenos Aires slum
A new subway line through an old informal neighbourhood in Buenos Aires is shaping up to be a political battle between social idealism and engineering pragmatism as Drew Reed discovers.