Though
massive and ripe with natural resources and incredible frontiers, the new
land was also flowing with inherently profitable waterways, brimming with
commercial trade prospects and inhabited by a native population which,
though Chudacoff reports it to have been significantly underestimated as an
city-dwelling peoples as well, would appear ripe for exploitation. More
importantly though to this discussion would be the text's consideration of
the inherency of the European urban culture to America's development.
Indeed, according to Chudacoff's (2005) account, "the Europeans who
colonized North America were from the beginning urban-minded people, linked
to commercial markets. Even the earliest explores in New England had
viewed the new land in terms of the commodities it promised to yield." (1)
This reveals an important point as applies to the ebb and flow of
urban development or focus through modern history. Especially across the
late 20th century as denoted here, the period of America's greatest growth
would also set off an urban cycle that denotes racially motivated phases of
disinterest in this building block to American society and prosperity. The
result is that even as the city remains in no small regard a center of
industry, of intellectual exchange and of community living space fully
unlike the individual living experience of the suburbs, it also possesses
various symptoms of its periods of decay which cannot be suppressed even in
spite of the considerable efforts of revitalization.
Indeed, if we refer back to the discussion above on gentrification,
it is clear that in fact the crime and poverty which are here disavowed are
not simply forced to the periphery. To the contrary, these failures of
civic equality typically come home to roost even in those neighborhoods
designed to contrast this effect. Jacobs (1961) text would pay focus to
this idea, though in 1961...
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