posted on January 4, 2012 with 3 notes
"the post-developed world’s beloved bike lanes and pavement cafes depend on civil authorities – the state – for their existence."

Infrastructure and the State | Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent

There’s a possibly apocryphal story that in order to be allowed to have sidewalk dining at Gus’s Cafe in Canberra, the eponymous Gus, sick of battling bureaucrats, wrote to the Queen.

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