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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Willravel
This reads more like partisan finger-pointing than actually getting down to what really happened. I've read stuff by Joel Kotkin before and it seems like he thinks there's a war on between the suburbs and urban centers. He's also an anti-environmentalist, which you can see in the article.
The last thing California needs is more partisanship.
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I don't think so, may places tried like California, especially LA tried very hard to gentrify it's neighborhoods with mixed to little success. Shit, NYC is more gentrified than any other place and in my opinion ruined much of what made this city so diverse and great.
Stalled gentrification makes for a more authentic downtown L.A., critic says | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times
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