http://gluespace.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/whos-doomed/ GLUE lived here from December, 2007 through June 21, 2008. Please join us over at the new www.GLUEspace.org. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://gluespace.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/whos-doomed/#comment-51 dpkmke Sat, 17 May 2008 17:24:22 +0000 http://gluespace.wordpress.com/?p=128#comment-51 Related: "Shrinking Gracefully" by Anthony Armostrong, who is in the panel discussion with Glaeser http://gluespace.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/shrinking-gracefully-by-anthony-armstrong-buffalo-ny/ Related: “Shrinking Gracefully” by Anthony Armostrong, who is in the panel discussion with Glaeser
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]]> http://gluespace.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/whos-doomed/#comment-50 dpkmke Sat, 17 May 2008 04:42:54 +0000 http://gluespace.wordpress.com/?p=128#comment-50 I'm just finishing watching the Glaeser discussion video...it's very good. I didn't agree with a lot of the things he wrote in City Journal that resulted in this talk, and he didn't really address those issues. What he did say was often good, the main point being: population growth or decline is not a meaningful measure in itself as a success/failure measure of a city. Someone on the panel brought up Youngstown bulldozing old vacant districts as a good thing if it means downsizing to live within realistic means as a city. Longworth seems to have taken it as a simple sign of failure. It's a sign of failing to keep doing what Youngstown was doing in the past. Is it a sign of declining quality of life? I’m just finishing watching the Glaeser discussion video…it’s very good. I didn’t agree with a lot of the things he wrote in City Journal that resulted in this talk, and he didn’t really address those issues. What he did say was often good, the main point being: population growth or decline is not a meaningful measure in itself as a success/failure measure of a city. Someone on the panel brought up Youngstown bulldozing old vacant districts as a good thing if it means downsizing to live within realistic means as a city. Longworth seems to have taken it as a simple sign of failure. It’s a sign of failing to keep doing what Youngstown was doing in the past. Is it a sign of declining quality of life?

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