The author is the excellent Alan Ehrenhalt, here is one bit: Walking the streets of the Financial District today, one can’t help but think that it is, indeed, a throwback to an earlier version of the city’s life. But not to the Wall Street of a century ago: That was an economically segregated one-use neighborhood, [...]
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Eric Zimmermann of The New Republic says: On TNR.com, Professor Alan Ehrenhalt describes the startling trend of “demographic inversion” in American cities: “Chicago is gradually coming to resemble a traditional European city -- Vien... Read Post
Yesterday, Trojan had a big giveaway in New York, offering people free vibrators out of what looked like hot dog carts. One of them happened to be set up on the corner of my street in the Financial District, a couple blocks from Wal... Read Post
Howard Husock reviews Alan Ehrenhalt's The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City: Its thesis is straightforward but not uncontroversial: that a large group of "millennial young adults" prefer urban over suburban, and e... Read Post