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Rosettes and Other Hidden Traces of Hamburg's Tram
Almost 50 years after Hamburg's last tram ran in 1978, Mert Bulan goes looking for what the once-huge network left behind, from rosettes on house walls that held overhead wires to rails under the asphalt, and asks why Germany's second-largest city ended up without trams.
9 min · 1,989 words
Land Value Capture in Practice: Reflections on Ethiopia's Urban Land Lease System
Wudu Muluneh Yimer, a former Addis Ababa district municipal manager who ran land tenders in Bole Sub-City, traces three decades of Ethiopia's urban land lease system, where all urban land is publicly owned and leased rather than sold, weighing its power to capture land value for infrastructure against weak institutions, valuation and enforcement.
22 min · 5,028 words