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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
A new new deal or some form of public/private infra, or both at once, is needed. You’re in a successful city. The infra in and around Philly and Baltimore is simply atrocious. I mean, approaching third world.
The economic segregation is way trickier to fix. I don’t know how you do that exactly, but I do know that NE Philly is filled with low end labor (working class area) that would benefit from infra spending. So perhaps the fix for infra is a large part of the fix for economic disparity between neighborhoods within cities.
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The Wire was fiction I suppose, but written by someone who knows the city’s problems. The over arching point being, our cities are pretty fucked. And the system is stacked against anyone trying to change it.
Where the gov is now don’t hold your breath.
On the other hand Detroit has had major development. I think a few local business people invested and started it, but downtown D today is probably busier than it was in the 50’s. Still there are huge parts that remain really fucked up.
