Comments on: Demographics + Transportation Costs + Lower Crime = More Urbanization http://marketurbanism.com/2008/06/19/demographics-transportation-costs-lower-crime-urbanization/ Urbanism for Capitalists / Capitalism for Urbanists Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:37:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Market Urbanism http://marketurbanism.com/2008/06/19/demographics-transportation-costs-lower-crime-urbanization/#comment-227 Market Urbanism Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:14:12 +0000 http://marketurbanism.com/?p=110#comment-227 Very interesting article. These people think they can help poor people by stripping away their dignity and making them dependent on policy decisions of what's right for them. And they wonder why generations of poverty and crime persist. Very interesting article.

These people think they can help poor people by stripping away their dignity and making them dependent on policy decisions of what’s right for them. And they wonder why generations of poverty and crime persist.

]]> By: Bill Nelson http://marketurbanism.com/2008/06/19/demographics-transportation-costs-lower-crime-urbanization/#comment-225 Bill Nelson Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:53:02 +0000 http://marketurbanism.com/?p=110#comment-225 <a HREF="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/memphis-crime" rel="nofollow">Here's</A>an article from the latest issue of The Atlantic that discusses why crime declined in the center of Memphis: Because they demolished the inner-city public housing and dispersed the criminals throughout the city in Section 8 housing. Sounds like a plan! No? Also, another way that governments ruin downtowns is to build ghastly convention centers, empty baseball stadiums (except for a few hours, 81 times a year), and other "urban renewal" schemes that make the city centers appear even more foreboding -- and permanently ruin any chance at recovering street activity. (And that's to say nothing of the taxpayer subsidies involved -- and the illegitimate confiscation of private property, by eminent domain, to accomplish all this.) Here’san article from the latest issue of The Atlantic that discusses why crime declined in the center of Memphis: Because they demolished the inner-city public housing and dispersed the criminals throughout the city in Section 8 housing. Sounds like a plan! No?

Also, another way that governments ruin downtowns is to build ghastly convention centers, empty baseball stadiums (except for a few hours, 81 times a year), and other “urban renewal” schemes that make the city centers appear even more foreboding — and permanently ruin any chance at recovering street activity.

(And that’s to say nothing of the taxpayer subsidies involved — and the illegitimate confiscation of private property, by eminent domain, to accomplish all this.)

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