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I would like to get you all's thoughts on this article:
http://www.newgeography.com/content/001110-the-white-city
He makes a point near the end that is important and that is that each city is unique and that we can not simply transplant solutions from other cities (such as Denver and Portland) that are very demographically different from cities like Memphis