Everyone seems to agree that public housing has no redeeming value — everyone, that is, but the tenants.
Housing and Transportation
Read about affordable housing; access to transportation; roadways; bridges and tunnels; crumbling infrastructure; railroads; Amtrak; trucking; interstate highway system; science and technology; land use;
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The Strange Disappearance of Civic America
A year ago the author set off a national debate with his article, “Bowling Alone,” which reported a pervasive decline in voluntary association and mutual trust among Americans. Now he sifts through the plausible explanations.
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The Strange Disappearance of Civic America
A more extended version of this article, complete with references, appears in the Winter 1995 issue of PS, a publication of the American Political Science Association. This work, originally delivered as the inaugural Ithiel de Sola Pool Lecture, builds on Putnam’s earlier articles, “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital,” Journal of Democracy (January 1995) and […]
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Reviving Community Development
Critics have called for abandoning the struggle for community development just as some of the most promising initiatives are being launched.
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The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life
If we want prosperity, we might begin by working to restore the fabric of community.
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Cities in the New Global Economy
A lthough it has been eerily absent from the Clinton administration’s otherwise ambitious economic program, an urban economic crisis persists in America. As the economy continues to globalize, it helps to think of the urban economic question as having two parts: Do large central-city economies have competitive functions that will enable them to prosper, or […]
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Winning With Tax Reform: The Connecticut Story
I n October of 1991, 40,000 furious citizens massed in Hartford at the State Capitol, protesting Connecticut’s new income tax, cursing and spitting on Governor Lowell Weicker, and threatening legislators with political extinction. One month later, Democrats in New Jersey were routed by an irate electorate in retribution for the passage of changes in the […]
