Word: pleasantã
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...black neighborhood south and west of my prestigious, private high school used to be run-down and crowded with public housing shacks and projects. Since my departure to college, parks and condos have increasingly sprung up, making for a more “pleasant?? scenery and “improving” the area near downtown while “beautifying” the city as a whole. The area’s economy is improving; it is a safer place to hang out after school gets out, and some people have moved in as an alternative...
Such changing neighborhoods are easy to embrace because of the “before and after” pictures of the urban makeovers. But soon enough, questions arise: Where did the old inhabitants go? Are they also enjoying “progress” in more “pleasant?? scenery and “beautified” neighborhoods? How much choice did they have in the relocation that accompanies skyrocketing property taxes? I believe that there are two main ways of looking at the situation. First, the same inevitable forces that drive change perpetuate community segregation. Second...
...universal right to adequate wages seems rather doubtful. It becomes an entirely mysterious matter how much money—how much food, how much sleep, how much medical care, how much time with children, how much security in old age, how much of every good that makes life pleasant??is guaranteed to Harvard’s workers by universal right...