Thanks for a link to that fascinating and hopeful article. The sorts of yuppification that affected NYC during the 90s made what little I know of the city seem very odd compared to my visits there in the 80s. The part of it that bothered me the most (in both NYC and in all of the other cities that I saw undergo a similar process) was that instead of actually improving the lives of people, poverty and seediness where banished by the simple expedient of banishing the poor to the far suburbs. I am deeply amused that about the only city that I saw that didn't undergo a similar process was LA, in large part because even the most optimistic city boosters there realize that LA is and always will remain an utterly vile place, but that this fact won't stop anyone from wanting to move there.
However, now much has changed, both here in Oregon, and it sounds like also in New York, the nation is changing and with luck these changes will make for a more interesting and less sanitized country.
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Date: 2003-04-27 12:59 pm (UTC)However, now much has changed, both here in Oregon, and it sounds like also in New York, the nation is changing and with luck these changes will make for a more interesting and less sanitized country.