"Demographic inversion" proposed as replacement term for gentrification. Question of depth/width/length of the trend. By ed. of Governing mag. Imprecise about inner city vs downtown an what exactly Jane Jacobs wrote.

Pleasant little op-ed about limiting tax-deductions for charitable bequests. This is the best part:
"Ray D. Madoff, a professor at Boston College Law School, is writing a book on immortality and the law."

Programs to deconcentrate poverty blamed for higher crime rates in smaller cities. to read.

graphic: 92% favor more energy efficient cars, paying more for energy.

On the Farm Bill, the price of a calorie, & the effects subsidized corn, soy & dairy. $1 buys "1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips but only 250 calories of carrots." (I'll keep posting Pollan articles as long as he keeps writing them)

"USA ... promote[d] globalization, whatever its benefits, ha[s] been the most powerful force of political, economic, social, & cultural destabilization ... since WWII; [it] resembles the '... everlasting uncertainty and agitation' forecast by Marx+Engels"

"suggest ways that U.S. cities could benefit from selective revisions of our tax structure, transportation budget, public housing program, and federal regulatory framework.
" Thought this would be about combatting obesity w/ urban design.

think tank/edu org on urban policy