I wrote this post in July of 2007, before the election of the new Mayor of Philadelphia.
The major themes of the election for the next mayor of Philadelphia predictably were:
Crime, Jobs, Ethics, Taxes and Neighborhood development.
For even sake, has anyone in the local political class heard of Global Warming?
I hear that Michael Nutter is a firm supporter of sustainability.
Cool.
I found the absence of a unifying direction in the platform of the candidates striking, even bewildering.
Crime, under-employment for youth and for the under-privileged population of the city, ethical lapses from city officials, fair income sources for the city, neighborhood development, in my mind, are all symptoms of a deteriorating social fabric of The City. Not just this city, all large cities on the planet exhibit these symptoms with varying degrees of acuity.
The fact that Philadelphia is the city where the Constitution was drawn is not just a historical event. I propose that Philadelphia be the city where the model for the city of the next decades emerges.
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