tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38545607.post5137068808150440132..comments2024-03-09T10:26:48.789+00:00Comments on economics, psychology, policy: The Triumph of the CityEmma Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466193733741012673noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38545607.post-83898436904330674352011-03-06T20:16:09.616+00:002011-03-06T20:16:09.616+00:00The end of the review, or book notes, was most int...The end of the review, or book notes, was most interesting to me. I agree that helping cities depends on helping individuals, and yet American society seems bent on ignoring individuals of potential within invisible, lower-income areas of our cities.<br /><br />Helping each citizen to have a life plan should be the goal of community organizations working at the grassroots level. In years past, I would have said that was a role of goverment, but government seems strikingly inefficient at writing meaningful requirements that still preserve individual freedoms and maximize individual preferences and skills.<br /><br />Providing common frames of reference and knowledge bases for individuals struggling with community poverty right now is such worthwhile work. Let's put our society in high gear toward enabling every person to be productive.<br /><br />Cities give proximity, so let's use that advantage so that people with creative ideas and the urge to innovate can come in contact with the poorest among us, with the goal of new businesses and new prosperity for America.Monica Thompsonhttp://www.useful-community-development.org/community-poverty.htmlnoreply@blogger.com