After the dramatic decline in concentrated poverty between 1990 and 2000, there was a sense that cities were “back,” and that the era of urban decay—marked by riots, violent crime, and abandonment—was drawing to a close. Unfortunately, despite the relative lack of public notice or awareness, poverty has re-concentrated. — Paul Jargowsky for The Century Foundation
The Century Foundation publishes a Paul Jargowsky paper laying out the facts and statistics of decline and poverty's impact on American cities.
Paul Jargowsky is a fellow at The Century Foundation where he writes about inequality, the geographic concentration of poverty, and residential segregation by race and class.
This work was support by The Century Foundation and the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University–Camden. The author received helpful comments and suggestions from Marie Chevrier, Natasha Fletcher, Straso Jovanovich, Lucy Muirhead, Jason Renker, Christopher Wheeler, and Zachary David Wood and production support from Abigail Grimshaw.
This Archinect editor thinks architecture must pay much more attention to this issue and start producing solutions instead of getting shamelessly high on celebrating star architect designed luxury condominiums for the globally rich clientele and elitist minimalist lakeside homes, and teaching their renderings in schools.
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yes Marc Episode 13 - LA Mas.... I even commented on the same line of thought to a degree in that post...... thank god for internet forums, would have no way of confirming my thoughts............and Latent Design, correct. ok will relisten and take a stab at a formulation............jla-x, given that zoning was created to control development, historically with regard to Big development, its interesting to think of zoning now as restrictive to small development.........walked into this zoning board hearing to do a presentation (first one and you had to be sworn in, wasn't ready for that) and a lady was crying intensely as if a family member had passed after completing their presentation, looked at the drawings, was a home addition -zoning.
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