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...should" is the tarnished but still real promise (plus such unique Los Angeles contributions as multiple urban centers instead of a single downtown and, pace Woody Allen, right turn on red); the "should not" is in the promise's failures. Cities of the future should not, for example, be without effective systems of mass transportation, as L.A. has been since the 1950s. Modern cities should not encourage the kind of uncontrolled urban sprawl that destroys a sense of unity and shared experience in its citizens. And modern cities should not stress growth over the environment as they plan...
Even the creation of inner-city enterprise zones, in which businesses would receive tax breaks and other incentives, may not be enough to draw employers into the dangerous world of drugs and violent crime that chronic poverty has created. After the Watts riots of 1965, Howard Allen, senior board member of Southern California Edison, was active in trying to lure manufacturing to the inner city. This time he is more pessimistic. To him it seems that the obstacles to attracting job-creating enterprises are more firmly entrenched than they were 25 years ago. Says Allen: "We are heading...
Urban planner Allen Kracower has seen the signs of unwelcome change in an array of suburbs, even the most affluent. "At one time the suburbs were a place to escape," he says. "Schools were better. The air was cleaner. Now it's the same kind of crime, dirty air and homeless people...
...write to associate myself publicly and unequivocally with the good work of Dr. S. Allen Counter Jr. and the Harvard Foundation; and to record as well my distress at the ill-focussed recent attention cast on Dr. Counter and his work. No individual or program at Harvard is immune to criticism and that is as it must be in as critical and contentious a community as this. Harvard people are never without an opinion even if they are not fully informed on those matters in which they hold such strong opinions. We all know and understand this...
Attorney John Burton is representing Bryant Allen, one of the other men riding in the car that night with Rodney King. Burton contends that the jury is not so much to blame as the prosecutors from the office of a district attorney who must normally work with the police in convicting criminals. "That alliance is more important than any conviction," he insists. "From the way it was tried, I can't believe that the D.A.'s office actually wanted a conviction in this case...