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Cities Are Learning--Revitalize or Else |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--SOLVING AMERICA'S URBAN CRISIS |
| Author: Sam Staley |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,647 Words, 17,600 Characters |
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Ricky is a "good" man, according to his friend, Dwayne Bray, a journalist for a Midwestern newspaper. He is also addicted to crack. Migrating from rural Tennessee in search of employment and the American Dream in the mid-1970s, Ricky found only unemployment, frustration, and dashed dreams. The image of Ricky--illiterate and unable to lift himself off the street corner where drug traffickers peddle their wares--has come to embody the frustrations and problems of the contemporary American inner city.
Urban America is in all throes of a wrenching social, economic, and political transformation. Once the heart of an economic region and the source of its vitality, the central cities are finding their roles and functions radically altered to reflect the rising dominance of growing, vibrant s...
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... exist in central cities.
The cities' ability to survive will depend in large part on their ability to adapt to changing economic times and accept their new position within the urban hierarchy. In this respect, cities must embrace the shift to a highly skilled knowledge-based economy and develop the flexibility to address the changing needs of American society as well as their residents.
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