[PRCo] Re: PAT's cuts

[Derrick Brashear]

On Saturday, December 4, 2010, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
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> On the subject of urban renewal (runinal?) ... Lancaster, PA tried it too.   David Schuyler, an F&M professor, wrote a book on the subject about how we tear down the bad neighborhoods without considering where the people will move ... it generally creates multiple bad neighborhoods as we move into the future.   He also talks about how we renewed downtown which was aging and tarnished but people went there.   No now no one goes to the block that was renewed. We will now renew it again.   The department store became a bomb fuse factory and now its empty.   The headquarters building for Armstrong Cork is empty.  The hotel ... well it was shut down for an entire year because of unrepaired defects.   Why?  No one goes to city hotels so the city retaliated and built a new one two blocks away ... a convention center ... to compete with it.  That way we can have two empty hotels.   :<)   Who pays for it?   A tax on the suburban hotels / motels.
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> http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02207-8.html
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I ordered it that day. Read the intro Thursday, most of the rest today
while sitting in Bergstrom Airport and then on the flights to
Friendship Airport and the short hop home from there.

We're not an urban development list, so I'll restrain my comments; I
don't believe he's fully non-partisan tho he appears to slant like I
do; I also think your summary of the book doesn't quite do it justice.
I do remember your comments and my impression of Lancaster Square on
one of our map-following expeditions  earlier this century, but not
until
now did all the pieces fit. I understand this class of story; now, I
think i understand this story.

I wonder which Pittsburgh neighborhoods were redlined. I can guess but
I should probably check.

-- 
Derrick