Why We Don't Like Our Cities

Editorial by Kenneth T. Jackson argues that Americans do not like cities they have built and offers ideas on how to make our cities "great" again.

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March 31, 2001, 5:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Kenneth T. Jacson observes that most American cities are "decaying." Those that are not losing population are sprawling out. "Unfortunately, immigrants without options and yuppies without children cannot by themselves revitalze our cities. Only ordinary families with ordinary incomes can do that. If New York ? or Boston or San Francisco or Chicago ? is to return to the glory of its past, then average men and women must choose to remain in the city after they have children."[Thanks to Linda LaSut for sending in this link.]

Thanks to Marty Sewell

Read the full story: Once Again, the City Beckons

Friday, March 30, 2001 in The New York Times

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