Wow. Thanks for posting this.
It's good that some people are recognizing this demand to suburbanize the
city. After a 50 year experimnent attempting to create a paradise with the
subuirbs, that failed model is being imposed as a condition for investment
in the cities.
The same fear based, hate based, philosophy that caused the middle class to
declare war on cities, where all of societies ills were to be enclosed, is
supposed to be welcomed because suburbanites have the money to make our
neighborhoods a wasteland too.
Here we weathered the attacks by Penn and the suburbs and demonstrated that
urban communities can offer a richness that cannot be bought. It would be
nice if the failure of the suburban dream was considered. It would be nice
if the hatred and prejudices of its middle class would soften and the
declaration of war against cities would be reconsidered.
As I see it, unfortunately, the perverse suburban dream is being imposed
here as some sort of sacrosanct truth rather than seen as the unsocial
hypocritical failure that it always was.
Penn can set up all the secret, private, censorship that it wants but hatred
is not going to make the cities a paradise anymore than it made Columbine a
paradise school.
Thanks again,
Glenn
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