RE: Can parks revive decaying U.S. cities?
Amazing how in only two years ('77-79) that Dennis Kucinich (claims reply #3 day@..) managed as mayor to cause the deterioration of the last thirty years (which actually accelerated twenty years earlier), and instigated the flight of the middle class to the far suburbs, a mirror of similar cities like Detroit. No doubt Cleveland has just as many or more City employees today as they did when the population was double and the tax base was ample. One must wonder how many even bother to report to work except to collect their paychecks.
No, the parks idea is pie-in-the-sky. Not only is there no money to create them, but no money to maintain them. #7 father nature hit the nail right on the head, and until the corrupt administration is ousted, and excess public employees eliminated, Cleveland will continue to decline. Don't hold your breath.
(sigh) A return to forests and farmland? That would be nice to replace some of that gobbled-up by suburban sprawl!
