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To: bentway who wrote (314837)	12/14/2006 8:32:32 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577188

"A number of American cities are starting to experience a major renaissance. Seattle's city population is growing at its fastest rate in 5 decades. That's true of a number of diverse cities from Boston to Seattle to Minneapolis to Chicago." Wouldn't it be interesting if the better off reclaimed the cities and the POOR were forced to dwell in the suburbs in the future? I always felt the Levittown model of a little stick-built house on a tiny patch of land was fairly silly. That's already happening......look at SFO......I don't think there is one really bad neighborhood in SF anymore. Even places like Hunter's Point are upgrading. Same thing is happening here....the city has been building mixed income housing in the two worst neighborhoods for the past ten years and both neighborhoods are starting to experience a renaissance. I think I posted an article on SI recently that said the number of poor are growing faster in the suburbs. In European cities, traditionally, the rich live in the city where the land is more valuable and the poor in the suburbs. The only reason we are the reverse is because American cities had industrial plants within their boundaries fouling up water land and air, European cities did not. Now most of those noxious plants have closed, making cities more desirable.