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...long with old, worn-out, ugly places that we have become anesthetized to their condition." Rouse, to be sure, was a believer. After pioneering the suburban shopping mall, he came up with a revolutionary idea to lure people away from it. His strategy was to revitalize the decaying inner city his developments had helped denude--not with a gleaming, modernist makeover but by restoring original buildings and bustling public spaces. Rouse's "festival marketplaces" like Faneuil Hall in Boston and Harborplace in Baltimore, Maryland, not only brought shoppers (and tourists) back downtown but also reimagined the town-center social dynamism...
Rouse, who lived with his second wife in a lakeside house in Columbia, next turned to the aging inner city for a new and profitable crusade. In Boston he took over three run-down 150-year-old buildings and turned them into a lively complex of offices, retail shops, food stalls and restaurants. Within four years of its opening in 1976, Faneuil Hall was drawing 15 million visitors annually. It inspired Rouse to try a similar restoration job at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Harborplace, which opened in 1980, had its detractors (a critic called it "Atlantic City's boardwalk with...
...financial flops, proving that street jugglers and candle shops cannot solve every city's economic woes. By that time, however, Rouse had retired from active management of his company and formed the Enterprise Foundation, which has financed 61,000 homes for the poor since 1981 and worked on solving inner-city problems like joblessness and drugs. Profit, he insisted, should never be the primary motive for a developer: "What should be important is to produce something of benefit to mankind. If that happens, then the profit will be there." Rouse was one master builder whose idealism, like his ideas, never...
However, the inner city youth were also more likely than the Harvard students to recover faster and were twice as likely as the Harvard students to achieve stable abstinence...
...Harvard students who were problem drinkers in college, 59 percent were still abusing alcohol by age 60. Of the inner city youths, only 28 percent were still abusing alcohol...