Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Freeways & Urban Decline: When Data and Theory Collide
Unsustainable Propositions
Dr. Patrick Condon at the University of British Columbia released a paper suggesting that freeways were a prime cause of US central city decline.
There were other, more important reasons for the decline of American cities, and some were simply not experienced by Canadian cities. For example, “forced busing” decade of the 1970s accounted for virtually one-half of the 50-year core loss as people with kids left the cities. And the central city systems of non-education are ensuring that where urban renaissance occurs school children and their parents are absent. There is more, but further discussion is unnecessary to demonstrate that the Condon Theory is unsustainable
Dr. Patrick Condon at the University of British Columbia released a paper suggesting that freeways were a prime cause of US central city decline.
There were other, more important reasons for the decline of American cities, and some were simply not experienced by Canadian cities. For example, “forced busing” decade of the 1970s accounted for virtually one-half of the 50-year core loss as people with kids left the cities. And the central city systems of non-education are ensuring that where urban renaissance occurs school children and their parents are absent. There is more, but further discussion is unnecessary to demonstrate that the Condon Theory is unsustainable
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