Urban (Economic) Success Is Never a Straight Line

M. Polése
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Chapter 1 is in part autobiographical and invites the reader on four urban journeys. First, we go to New York, whose decline and subsequent resurgence are recounted through the author’s eyes: In this journey, we revisit the violent neighborhoods of 1950s Westside Manhattan, and we also show how New York’s unequaled concentration of human and institutional resources allowed the city to rebound. We then travel to Vienna, which went from imperial grandeur to urban hell, losing its intellectual elites and historic hinterland, only to rise up again. The voyage to Port au Prince follows, introducing us to a Third World city and the struggles of daily life under conditions of extreme poverty and institutional dysfunction, whose roots take us back to Haiti’s sad history. The final stop is Buenos Aires, which was once in the same league with New York and London but is now reduced to the status of a Third World city, providing the textbook example of the power of national government to undermine even the greatest cities.
城市(经济)的成功从来不是一条直线
第一章部分是自传体,并邀请读者进行四次城市之旅。首先,我们去了纽约,通过作者的眼睛叙述了纽约的衰落和随后的复兴:在这段旅程中,我们重新审视了20世纪50年代曼哈顿西区的暴力社区,我们也展示了纽约无与伦比的人力和机构资源集中如何让这座城市反弹。然后我们去了维也纳,它从帝国的宏伟变成了城市的地狱,失去了它的知识精英和历史腹地,只是为了再次崛起。接着是前往太子港的航程,向我们介绍了一个第三世界城市,以及在极端贫困和体制失调条件下的日常生活斗争,其根源使我们回到海地的悲惨历史。最后一站是布宜诺斯艾利斯,它曾与纽约和伦敦处于同一级别,但现在已沦为第三世界城市,为国家政府的权力甚至可以破坏最伟大的城市提供了教科书式的例子。
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