As someone who lives in an urban area, one of the areas the writer likes to read about is how can public spaces be made better? When we come to an urban area whether to work or to study, we eventually settle in one part of the city or another. The writer’s preference has been closer to the centre than the outskirts. However, in every part of the city there is an area which could use a do over. Many times the money does not have to be large, but if the area is scheduled to be fixed up, there is an opportunity to do something. To do more, one idea is to examine what cities around the world are doing and a reference book is the good life – new public spaces for recreation edited by Zoe Ryan, Val Alen Institute, New York, 2006. There are interesting ideas which have been done, could be done as well as ideas that are a little far fetched.

Linking to dividend paying stocks –  the do more for stocks is receiving a dividend, the ideas that are far fetched are the stocks that try to promise gains rising to the moon which you should avoid. The ones in between are the stocks you read about and think maybe, but studies continue to prove sticking to stocks that pay dividends and have consistently done so gives you an average better than the stock market index which means your money grows over time with less risk.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions