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Thursday, July 18, 2013

DEAD CITIES


Venice - a lively place in the 1980s

"Many houses and apartments are empty for weeks or months at a time...

"And the workers who service this culture invariably commute long distances..."

Desert attests to lack of community - FT.com

This applies to parts of Venice, Paris, London...

Ordinary people are being priced out of some of our cities.


Paris - too expensive.

Simon Kuper, in the Financial Times, has written about how "Our great, global cities are turning into vast gated citadels where the elite reproduces itself...

"Paris is pricing out even the upper middle-class."

Priced out of Paris - FT.com


Servants may have to stay in the servants quarters, if they cannot afford a bedsit.

"Think of Dick Whittington, the semi-mythical medieval English country boy who ended up mayor of London. 

"But today Dick wouldn't be able to afford a bedsit in London...

"Inevitably, the one per cent in the global city shapes national policies.... 

"Such as deregulating finance...

"Or privileging control of inflation over job growth..." 

Canada: Charges against Levin are horrific ... he had a hand in drafting graphic sex lessons for kids

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