Saturday, March 11, 2006

Warsaw: Rising As a Phoenix from Planning 

If you have not paid a visit to Wendell Cox's Urban Tours by Rental Car, I suggest you do. Many informative and entertaining rental car tours from around the globe.

Here's a report from his recent rental car tour of Warsaw, Poland:

The street sign says it all. The corner of Solidarity and Jean-Paul II. It would be fitting if the previous street names were Marx and Lenin. Even more fitting would be a corner of Thatcher and Reagan, but I did not see that. But Poland’s long night is over and the nation is now in the European Union and showing the kind of prosperity that free markets create.

And the brief itself, with some fine photographs:

WARSAW: RISING LIKE A PHOENIX OUT OF PLANNING
(Adobe Acrobat .pdf, 1.01 MB)

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