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Operating as curmudgeon and gadfly, but with a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers...
Continuing Decay. But the voters learn about upheavals elsewhere, on TV and in the press; fear is contagious. While Cohen put on a slick, well-financed campaign, Stenvig had only to state repeatedly that he would make the city safe for everyone. Cohen issued detailed position papers on housing, taxes, pollution and other issues, and attacked Stenvig as a Northern-style George Wallace. The detective meanwhile produced no specific programs, even in the law-and-order field. He answered personal criticism with the reassurance: "I'm not goofy...
Another factor was the continuing decay of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor organization. The party split over the 1966 gubernatorial nomination, then lost the election. The Humphrey-McCarthy rivalry last year helped the process along. Naftalin, a Humphrey protege 25 years ago, declined to run for a fifth two year term this year, and his withdrawal created a vacuum that left many voters without allegiance to any commanding personality...
This time out she is up to much the same sort of trick. In The Economy of Cities, she asks "why some cities grow and others stagnate and decay." To find the answer, she develops a beguiling window-box theory of economics in which personal conviction and anecdote weigh more than statistics. The ingredient essential to the vitality of cities, she asserts, is "new work being added to old." Innovative energy comes from small, independent, hustling entrepreneurs. "The little movements at the hubs," says Jane Jacobs, "turn the great wheels of economic life...
...moved toward a new permissiveness in sex, however, no such tolerance has developed toward the use of drugs. Only those under 30 indicate any desire to legalize marijuana; otherwise, the denunciation of pot is overwhelming. In fact, 90% associate drug use with "moral corruption and decay"; 85% believe that smoking marijuana leads to use of stronger drugs; 74% believe it morally wrong; and 67% think it worse than drinking liquor...