Now that a decade of reliance on the private sector has produced one of the lowest rates of renewable power generation in Europe, the need for direct public investment in a green industrial base – the commanding heights of the future – could not be more pressing.
"Now, it's super-commodified". Josefina López, a playwright and screenwriter (best known for "Real Women Have Curves") who founded Casa 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights, wrote and staged a short play earlier this year titled "Hipsteria," about a Boyle Heights of the future in which an activist mom is evicted from her apartment so that it can be transformed into a dog hotel.
1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World by Frank McLynn 422pp, Jonathan Cape, £20 Frank McLynn's splendid book tells the story of a year in which colonialism flourished, the slave trade was at its height and the future emergence of the United States was virtually guaranteed.
Once you've done with this entire operation and clamp the chair, it will be difficult to adjust the height in the future, as the clamping of a Jubilee Clip onto the chair will break the seal.
The signs said, in bright-red paint, "177 M" — supposedly, the future height of the reservoir.
Look out for CdM's height in the future!
To protect the light and air of the brownstone row houses that soon went up at 13-39 Beekman Place, the Beekmans promised to restrict the height of future buildings on their remaining waterfront strip of land, directly below the houses, to no higher than that of Beekman Place itself.
At the height of the economic boom a decade ago, while futures, champagne and bad debt swilled around Canary Wharf, the sounds emanating from tower blocks barely a mile away served notice that there was more than one east London.
The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey has a remarkable machine with which it can figure out the time and height of the tide on any past or future date, for any part of the world, on one condition: that at some time someone has studied how the topographic features of the locality modify and direct the tidal movements.
