MB Civic

By Edward Glaeser | Friday, January 4, 2008 | The Boston Globe

“…Our cities are as important today as they were in 1968, but you wouldn’t know it from the first caucus and primary, held in states without big cities. The economy is powered by the idea-rich clusters around New York and San Francisco, not the black soil of Iowa. Yet, Republicans now ignore cities altogether, and Democratic urban policies cater too much to well-organized urban interests. We need national politicians to pay more attention to urban problems, and this will only happen when we start judging them on their urban policies….”…BS

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/01/04/what_about_the_cities?mode=PF