Harvard scholar Edward Glaesar wrote an awesome opinion piece in today's New York Sun juxtaposing the experiences of New York City and Detroit in the Industrial Era (1890s-1950s) and the Global Era (1960s-present). These two pictures clearly illustrate this paradigm.
While I am often wary of the effects that globalization and deindustrialization have had on cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh among others, I too am attracted to the benefits that growing, dense, innovative power nodes bring. As a city lover, how could I think otherwise? Cities are more than just agglomerations of buildings. There is no experience greater for myself than to wake up in a city where change is in the air, where people flock to, not flock from.
Brookings published an interesting study, Restoring Prosperity: the State Role in Revitalizing America's Older Industrial Cities on why some cities are in ascendance and others are not, and while some of the conclusions may seem obvious, it's definitely worth a look.
Photo Credits: Time Warner Center, New York - MorgueFile.com; Michigan Central Train Station, Detroit - Dave Hogg, photographer
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