Urban decline moves to the suburbs

older cities like Chicago and counties like Cook have already shown how to focus on the few. Their economic strategies have benefited those who own the businesses that cater to the tourist trade, not the workers who make the beds and chop the onions. They have created enclaves around universities and hospitals where parents can buy condos for their student-children and where private security forces patrol the streets. They have sequestered revenues ... Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Subjects: U.S., Living, Extra
Topics: Housing
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Mar 25, 2008 - 8:38 AM PDT
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Dwight Rousu
3.4
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

A good resource reading for urban development and urban decline. How to get people together to have an urban community.

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Chris Finnie
4.1
by Chris Finnie - Oct. 1, 2008

A tad long, this story nevertheless accurately represents what I heard when I worked for a congressional campaign in the DuPage area in 2004. With property taxes rising and services decreasing, residents increasingly felt crushed in the middle with declining options. It is good to hear of other communities that have successfully faced down the same problems.

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008
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