Hello,
Sorry to take a chunk out of Earl's nice email. I wanted to help shorten things. And while I would be more than happy to take issue with some of the precise causes of "white flight", that's not my reason for replying to it. I think his email serves as an excellent reminder that with the elections coming up, part of the discourse should be about where we'd like to see our city be 30 years from now.
Allen Graetz Lowry Hill
Earl Netwal wrote:
I've touched on this topic before. I think it is an often overlooked aspect
of evolutionary urban life. Depending upon one's perspective, the conflict
and its resolution serve as grounds for a tribute to or a diatribe against
the "natural" forces of democracy. Flour mills are dusty, and idling trucks
can be a nuisance. Eventually democratic forces will expell the nuisances
from our back yards. Flour mills and idling trucks per se do not vote, their
neighbors do.
** SNIP **
I feel a book coming on, so I will stop here with a point or two. Cities created suburbs by banning industries. People left cities to be close to jobs in the suburbs. Suburbs flourished. Decayed portions of cities become rediscovered. New urban housing attracts empty nesters. People live in cities for their cultural and other amenities rather than their original economic base. There are hundreds of implications.
Musing in Nokomis East,
Earl Netwal
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