The Great Reset: What Will It Mean for Jacksonville?

June 17, 2010 27 comments Open printer friendly version of this article Print Article

A local planner reviews Urban theorist Richard Florida's explanation of why the recession is the mother of invention and ponders what it means for Jacksonville.


(3) Resetting Our Local Thinking


If Jacksonville can apply the same lessons of history and geography that have enabled cities like Boston, Pittsburgh, and Charlotte to weather the current economic storm, we may also prosper in the future as they have.  In order to do this, however, we must first abandon the “suburban growth illusion” (and its self serving, backward-looking politics) and replace it with a much more functional concept of regional planning.  Drawing on the specific insights of The Great Reset, here are several things that we absolutely must do.


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