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beyond the big city blues

July 12, 2011/in
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Walter Russell Mead

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Via Meadia

Kotkin grasps the most important facts about urban development today: without rapid, small business led growth, there is no way that the residents of our inner cities can escape the cycle of poverty that has them in its grip. And progressive blue politics as conventionally understood systematically squeeze and crush growth in our cities.

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