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How Foreign Cities Cope |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--SOLVING AMERICA'S URBAN CRISIS |
| Author: Peter Hall |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,480 Words, 15,080 Characters |
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There is no one worldwide urban crisis. There are multiple urban cities, and different cities have to cope with different packages. In Baghdad and Kuwait, for example, people are still worrying about water and electricity. Muscovites are obsessed with the search for bread. In the Third World, the main concern of city planners and administrators is how to provide adequate shelter and services for the tens of thousands of new citizens who arrive every year. And in the industrialized world, traffic congestion and urban growth management have been priority issues.
Many major American cities have had to grapple simultaneously with the erosion of their industrial base, the increasing distress of their less affluent citizens, and a rising tide of drug-related crime. Ominous signs exist that...
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...e; they come in part from basic differences in cultural style. Ever since Thomas Jefferson's time, at least, Americans have had a certain phobia about their cities: They see them as cesspools of iniquity, and they react by escaping to the suburbs and small towns. Perhaps the truth is that every nation gets the cities it deserves; to achieve livable cities, you must first want to live in them.
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