Government
May 25, 2012
What is with the 'downtown revivals'?
It takes more than an in-migration of pseudo-hippie latte drinkers to revive a city.
Gideon Kanner
Professor of Law Emeritus, Loyola Law School
USC Law School
When it comes to press reports about urban conditions, I follow a rule of thumb. If the headline is upbeat about this or that city "coming back," I read the text of the article very carefully because, sure enough, most of the time the optimistic tone of the headline is not reflected in the facts reported in the body of the article. This is particularly true if the newspaper in question is the New York Times or the Los Angeles Times.
A case in point is the May 20 front-page story,...
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