Critics have called for abandoning the struggle for community development just as some of the most promising initiatives are being launched.
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 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 […]