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POPSNew study money portends hope for former Vacuum Oil brownfields “Prime land” it is, so close to the University of Rochester and city-center Rochester. Like so many stretches along the banks of the Genesee, so beautiful and hauntingly desolate, it's hard to imagine downtown could be so close. The River Trail there is one of my favorite spots to skate.
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POPSLas Vegas and San Jose: boomtowns with busted downtowns
What Vegas and Silicon Valley cannot do for their downtowns, can most American cities without booming economies expect to do for theirs? This bodes poorly for conventional planning on how to save city centers. New ideas on how to save American cities need to address unmentionables: racism, classism, the drug economy and the perception of violence that hobbles cities. Meanwhile, mostly driving to and from work, Americans burn five times more petrol than even other industrialized countries, leaving us at the mercy of players who give us oil by trading away our freedoms, and by wrecking the earth to farm all manner of sugars, starches, and now cellulose, to burn ethanol—all for nine lanes of traffic, strip malls, and ugly cities full of blacktop but devoid of civic life and youthful promise. Those who have not traveled to Hong Kong, Manhattan, and other compact cities have not experienced how life could be better with fewer cars. And success would free the need for massive subsidies.
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