Title: Good, but the conclusions are inconsistent
Product review: Mr. Powledge makes good points on the ailments of federally-funded urban revitalization efforts. He shows how the poor stayed poor, New Haven CT stayed depessed, crime rose, and things got worse all as millions of federal and local dollars were being spent on the city.But then he takes a big step in the wrong direction: he comes out with a immensely favorable view of Mayor Lee - the man who directed all the bad programs and still thought they were successful. Powledge would do better to realize that the Mayor's old-guard paternalism was destructive for the city's revitalization; Lee directed and planned when he should have allowed people to build their own lives.
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