The City: A Global History.
Joel Kotkin
There's always going to be a Mardi Gras - at least, a lot of Americans hope there will always be,.. But that doesn't mean that has to be the only reason for your economic existence.
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New Orleans has to rebuild not just its buildings and its political culture, but its image,.. The City: A Global History.
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People want to know whether a place is a credible first-world city. What they found in New Orleans was that underneath the gloss and facade of a first-world tourist attraction was a third-world reality. It will take a lot of work to erase that view.
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You have a declining urban core (in Baltimore) and a fairly buoyant state. And that's tough if you're the captain of what can be seen as a sinking ship,.. He's dealt a fairly hard hand.
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[But the Orange Line] doesn't go anywhere you would want it to go,.. It's a tour of the industrial bowels of the Valley. And there's no place to stop to get a cup of coffee.
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You now have options in suburbia that never existed before. If you're nomadic in the tech world, you're really moving from one suburb to another.
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[Add to the list of recovery factors an intangible: spirit.] Cities will themselves to be great,.. It's an underappreciated factor.
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Cities will themselves to be great. It's an underappreciated factor.
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My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.
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