Summary info re: Economic Integration from CEOs for Cities

[zoo]

City Vitals Series: Economic Integration

As part of our research series taking an in-depth look at the factors for urban success outlined in City Vitals, CEOs for Cities with support from the Chicago Community Trust commissioned Paul Jargowsky at the University of Texas at Dallas and Todd Swanstrom at the University of Missouri St. Louis to explore ways to increase economic integration in cities. 

Three key points in the paper include:

1) When metropolitan areas are economically segregated, every problem becomes harder to address.

2) Suburban sprawl has been an engine of economic segregation.

3) Infill development increases the possibilities for stable integrated neighborhoods.

The paper offers a number of strategies for increasing economic integration in cities. Once applied, these strategies result in better access to opportunity for poorer populations, increasing their chances of moving out of poverty and helping cities capture their Opportunity Dividend.

Download the Economic Integration briefing paper here. http://www.ceosforcities.org/files/Economic_Integration_Briefing_Paper.pdf

[Mugatu]

I don't agree with the premise that economic segregation is something that's only occurred in the last 50 years.  I'm racking my brain to come up with a traditional urban neighborhood where the wealthy and the working class really lived cheek to jowl and can't think of anything. 

I know its not PC to root for gentrification, but I've begun to believe that if you want the cities to return to their former glory, the wealthy have to return to the urban core and a lot of them are going to want to live with other wealthy people.

[thelakelander]

Aren't Riverside, Springfield, Sugar Hill and San Marco all places where the wealthy and working class lived in close proximity to one another historically?