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. Harry
