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Huh! I’ll bite! Cities and the Wealth of Nations is fairly long read but where’s the posting? Off the cuff, I will say that the mayor, city council and most of this city haven’t read the famous book by Jane Jacobs, RIP! Maybe someone can give the mayor and council an executive summary of the book or at least point out to them that a copy is available at Windsor Public Library! You know the great anchor of this city for every citizen!
Or maybe yet, another book by Jacobs; The Death and Life of Great American Cities, is more appropriate. It might not pertain to Windsor except in the first part of the title..The Death of….Surely by know Windsor must be the laughing stock of any city size in North America, talk about running around with their heads cut , screaming that the sky is falling etc. While other cities get on with infrastructure, arts , culture and heritage, defining what they want for their city, Windsor is still looking for a definition of what the word “city” means.
I don’t think that reading, thinking, and the digesting of what one reads, then acting on what one reads, is a great part of our city council. WE KNOW THAT THEY DON’T READ THE BLOGS IN THIS CITY! DON’T WE! I doubt that they read at all of the literature, to the news, to what is being reported, to anything, that is happening in every other city on this continent!
Oh, they’re reading they just haven’t realized that we’re more than a passing fad or a curiosity. We’ll keep building on our content and then by the next Municipal Election we’ll have a resource that voters never had in the past. The best way to make bad choices apparant is to contrast them against the right choices
ARRRRG!!!
Something happened to my post. I can’t find it on the editing page and the original is on my computer at home.
To summerize
Jane Jacob’s book “Cities and the Wealth of Nations” talks about the city as the building blocks of economies. Not Provinces or Nations but cities. As cities suffer so do the larger economies. City economies are built up as they replace imports of goods with products of their own and then export the surpluses. Cities decline when they fail to continue to replace imports with their own exports…
Windsor/Essex needs to find things to export. I suggested processed food. We grow it and then ship it off to the U.S. or Toronto for processing, packaging and distribution. Agriculture is one resource we have that can’t easily be replaced with cheap overseas replacements.
Electricity, solar and wind power should not just be produced here, our tool shops and factories should be making all the equipment and then exporting it to other markets.
I finished with a passage from the book.
Alas, I will try to post it when I get home but that was the jist of it.
A few movers and shakers did show up at Scaledown Unveiled, and not just out of curiosity or boredom. There was some genuine interest. We need to give some due credit to those at city hall who are trying to reach out to and understand their electorate. Otherwise what incentive is there for them to cross over to a new way of thinking?