On Thu, 18 May 2006 16:34:18 -0500, you wrote: >OrionWorks wrote: > >> >> Jed's thoughts on this matter brings to mind something I've been pondered on >> and off in my life for years, a concept called "Emergence." Theories of >> Emergent behavior help explain why dilapidated Mom-and-Pop retail stores >> thrive. It helps explain why certain run-down neighborhoods in our cities >> deserve to stay pretty much intact the way they are, as compared to being >> torn >> down and replaced with another ill thought out housing project, and with >> disastrous consequences. > >I hope you don't mean such neighborhoods deserve to be left run-down. > >Personally, I think cities should actively develop mixed income >neighborhoods. There is no reason why poor and rich can't live in the same >neighbourhoods.
--- Sure there is. The rich wouldn't do it. -- John Fields
