The Boston Globe, December 14th, 2007
I READ Edward Glaeser's Dec. 7 op-ed, "Building a better Springfield," in the morning, then, lo and behold, that evening online I came across a piece that he wrote recently for City Journal, about Buffalo. Imagine my surprise when I realized how similar the two pieces were. The arguments, apparently reflective of a certain strain of conservative economic thinking these days, amount to saying that old, run-down urban areas (formerly centers of European immigrant labor, now largely minority and impoverished) should seek a sustainable level and not aspire to regain any semblance of their past. A ...
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