Interesting read from Gopnik. Sharkey's view is somewhat compatible with that of David M. Kennedy's regarding what to do about persistent violence, which is about disrupting social networks (or anti-social networks, I suppose) who perpetrate the vast majority of remaining urban violence, then offering both carrots and sticks to get the shooting to stop.
The bigger picture is that this is the biggest social change in the US in my lifetime. Cities were still scary in the 80s and 90s, and then it all flipped all at once. The answers Sharkey is reaching for still haven't been adequately resolved, but the entire subject is important. There's a strong argument that the revitalization of cities has created a permanent Republican advantage in congressional and electoral college races, for example.
Interesting read from Gopnik. Sharkey's view is somewhat compatible with that of David M. Kennedy's regarding what to do about persistent violence, which is about disrupting social networks (or anti-social networks, I suppose) who perpetrate the vast majority of remaining urban violence, then offering both carrots and sticks to get the shooting to stop.
The bigger picture is that this is the biggest social change in the US in my lifetime. Cities were still scary in the 80s and 90s, and then it all flipped all at once. The answers Sharkey is reaching for still haven't been adequately resolved, but the entire subject is important. There's a strong argument that the revitalization of cities has created a permanent Republican advantage in congressional and electoral college races, for example.