[cogitator]

Very, very interesting. Haven't had a chance to look at the maps yet. Comments welcome; here's a Web link to them.

www.metroresearch.org

[StockAyatollah]

Orfield, who is a Democrat, is also a passionate advocate of stronger metropolitan government as the answer to the challenges facing central cities and all varieties of suburbs. His agenda calls for tax-sharing, stronger land-use planning, campaigns for affordable housing and other measures he says would halt the decline in some parts of the region and relieve the growth pressures being experienced in others.

In other words, let's take the disastrous leftist policies that caused people to flee the cities, and put them to work in the suburbs.

[Clemenza]

Different areas develop in different ways. Here in South Florida, we simply have one mega suburb stretching from South Miami-Dade County on up to Jupiter, with no real Urban core (central city Miami and Fort Lauderdale are not that big).

In New York by contrast, the closer your commute, the more expensive it is. I have noticed that some of the "inner suburbs" have decayed, although most are either extremely expensive or inhabited by Middle and Upper Middle Class immigrants (who want the suburban lifestyle while being close to others of their ethnicity).

[RightWhale]

the Brookings Institution.

Getting an acrid taste in my mouth. This think tank is beginning demonstrate that they are not thinking productively. Or maybe they are well past beginning and have been condescending toward the proles for a long time. Some say Brookings are elitist.

[Alberta's Child]

Orfield, who is a Democrat, is also a passionate advocate of stronger metropolitan government as the answer to the challenges facing central cities and all varieties of suburbs.

That flies in the face of an interesting article on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal this week, which indicated that the large, centralized government in Los Angeles is so incompetent that large swaths of the city will be voting in November on secession measures. The article pointed out that smaller California cities in the 100,000 population range do a much better job of controlling crime, running schools, etc.

[the bottle let me down]

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