Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Encourage Bottom-Up Redevelopment: Reason Saves Cleveland
This video basically takes aim at central planning in cities. Wal-Mart figures in this vid about revitalizing Cleveland. In fact Cleveland attempted to keep out Wal-Mart using zoning to defeat them. Of course there was a local union-operated grocery to use, but they were forced to serve a growing community in order to survive. Could Chicago be well served by having liberal zoning policies?
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