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...things [designers] can do is show the way certain sites can be...transformed from decay to something usable," Rowe says...
That will require disentangling tough but fair stances on crime and social decay from racism. It will require drastic reform of welfare to break cycles of dependency and disaffection...
...many whites--especially those working-class whites whose tax burden increased in the dozen years as their wages decreased--the conservative response to urban decay has rung true: The costly, taxpayer-funded social policies of the 1960s only exacerbated Blacks' problems and urban decline in general by providing disincentives to employment...
McInerney's version of Vanity Fair brings to mind The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), Tom Wolfe's memorably caustic social novel of Manhattan's decay. The two books, however, don't really resemble each other beyond their shared setting. Wolfe despises his characters and creates them in order to hold them up to ridicule, wriggling and in pain. McInerney cares deeply about the silly, grasping, ego-swollen pipsqueaks -- fairly decent, fairly normal people -- he invents. Wolfe's cold contempt gives the reader distance, a panoramic view of an ant colony. McInerney shows us human beings who feel wretched...
Nefertari's tomb, lost for three millenniums, was discovered in 1904. Its treasures had been looted, probably in antiquity, and its wall paintings had deteriorated. By 1940, in fact, the decay had become so severe that Egyptian authorities closed the tomb to the public. It seemed to have become yet another endangered landmark of ancient Egyptian civilization. But in 1986 the Egyptian Antiquities Organization and the Getty Conservation Institute of Santa Monica, Calif., embarked on a $4 million restoration project. The dramatic results were unveiled last week. Although access to the tomb will be limited for two years to scientists...