Posted by Will Hayes on May 23, 2002 at 07:24:17:In Reply to: ArchWeek - The New City Home posted by Kevin Matthews on May 22, 2002 at 15:01:44:
This is a rather one-sided article.
Just because city centres in many U.S. cities are becoming a bit less deterrent to the rich as they had been in the previous few decades, and that there is a (somewhat true) popular perception that U.S. cities are "doing better" these days, this is only really true in a few cases. In reality there has been little effect on the cities as a whole, and those that are really doing well are mainly postwar car-metropolises like Phoenix, Houston, etc. (which incidentally have minimal, and generally unwalkable urban cores) The problems of older U.S. cities have not disappeared.
The example of Baltimore is used in the article, and we saw some pretty pictures - but Baltimore is currently the fastest-shrinking city in the U.S.
While I endorse the marketing of cities as 'nice places to live again', just repeating the mantra of "the cities are coming back" again and again in the popular media doesn't do very much for crubling urban neighborhoods and the increasing proliferation of sprawl.
Toll Brothers pulled in record profits last year.
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