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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Center cities provide a kind of quality of life benefit to the suburbs, as they tend to provide more services and get more homeless individuals as a result. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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What is government for?

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

He explained that in the modern world, the government must protect people from disasters created by forces outside their control, and it must provide social services that would protect people from unemployment, old age, illness, accidents, unsafe food and drugs, homelessness, and disease.