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Never Underestimate The Power Of A City To Regenerate.

I Don't Think That You Can Dispose Of The Constructive And Inventive Things That America Is Doing - And Say, "oh We Aren't Doing Anything Anymore And We Are Living Off Of What The Poor Chinese Do." It Is More Complicated Than That. There Is The Example Of Detroit Which Was Once A Very Prosperous And Diverse City. And Look What Happened When It Just Specialized On Automobiles. Look At Manchester When It Specialized In Those Dark Satanic Mills, When It Specialized In Textiles. It Was Supposed To Be The City Of The Future.

The Second Mode To Deal With Unsafe Cities Is To Take Refuge In Vehicles. This Is The Technique Practiced In The Big Wild-animal Reservations Of Africa, Where Tourists Are Warned To Leave Their Cars Under No Circumstances Until They Reach A Lodge. It Is Also The Technique Practiced In Los Angeles.

Observation Of Realities Has Never, To Put It Mildly, Been One Of The Strengths Of Economic Development Theory.

I Think It Is Fatal To Specialize. And All Kinds Of Things Show Us That And That The More Diverse We Are In What We Can Do, The Better.