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In the latest Cities on a Hill featured column, Jonathan Foreman explains why order came to New Delhi.Gregory Rodriguez on the reformation of the city of angels:
For most of the last generation, L.A.'s public intellectual life has been dominated by editors, thinkers and writers who ran the ideological gamut from A to B — from committed liberal to strident leftist. But in the last few years, as the Labor Left has consolidated its control over City Hall, it has simultaneously lost its firm grip on the small class of writers and thinkers who narrate L.A.'s civic life for the broader public. Villaraigosa's rise from childhood poverty, and his not-always true public recollections of that childhood.The Times offers an excellent mini-history of public housing in New Orleans, and questions the ongoing destruction of what it calls some of "the best public housing built in the United States" and the embodiment of "New Urbanist ideals: pedestrian friendly environments whose pitched roofs, shallow porches and wrought iron rails have as much to do with 19th-century historical precedents as with late Modernism."Shall the last be first? Joel Kotkin sees the center shifting from America's Bostons and San Franciscos to its Boises and Renos. ("In 2005, fewer people were employed in New York City than in 1969—while, over the same period, the United States as a whole gained 61 millions jobs, an increase of 87 percent.")
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