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Who built their houses on the sand: Part 1, private property
By:David A. Smith Between public land and private property, the boundary shifts like the sands, and though we think the division immutable and clear, it is often clogged with political and moral...
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Who built their houses on the sand: Part 2, public interest
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By:David A. Smith As we saw in yesterday’s post, using a crisis-presuming Boston Globe (December 15, 2013) article, if a beach needs to be built up to protect...
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This land is whose land? Part 1, No permanent houses
By:David A. Smith Though a catastrophe can be a chance to start fresh, the destruction of physical habitat does not wipe out the legal habitat, nor the economic or power structures, and all these...
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This land is whose land? Part 2, You can’t imagine a more vulnerable area
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post, using a pair of articles, from the New York Times (December 14, 2013) and with greater insightful from Quartz, November 21,...
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This land is whose land? Part 3, Erected by the uncle’s representatives
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith As we’ve seen in the two preceding parts, inspired by a reportorial New York Times (December 14, 2013) article...
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