Snow and Whitehead played a small but defining role in reversing that trend. They solved a local mystery that led, ultimately, to a series of global solutions—solutions that transformed metropolitan living into a sustainable practice and turned it away from the collective death drive that it threatened to become. And it was precisely their metropolitan connection that made this solution possible: two strangers of different backgrounds, joined by circumstance and proximity, sharing valuable information and expertise in the public space of the great city. The Broad Street case was certainly a
...more
