Category: Federal funding

Radical deconcentration

8 November, 2005 (14:24) | Federal funding, Housing, New Orleans, Slums, US News |

Even as Paris suffers through the hideous consequences of malignant income over-­concentration, back home Hurricane Katrina has done what three decades of well-meaning urban social policy could not: it has decisively and permanently deconcentrated poverty from Old New Orleans.   
 

New Orleans public housing, 2001
 
Old New Orleans was one of the nation’s sickest cities, with declining […]

Prescribing New New Orleans, Part 2

27 October, 2005 (14:14) | Federal funding, Government, Multipart posts, New Orleans, Theory |

[Continued from Part 1]
 
5.         Build in urban mass transit from inception
 
A healthy city has not only skeleton (streets and major structures), it also has a nervous system (rapid daily people movement): urban mass transit.  Moving people quickly and cheaply between home and work encourages labor mobility and hence a strong and resilient economy.
 
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