by Jeanine Baker
‘Sense of community’ will become the key currency of sustaining urban communities ~
..” the sustainable city of the future will depend precisely on commitment and long-term residents. It also will rest on the revival of traditional institutions that have faded in many of today’s cities. Churches—albeit often in reinvented form—help maintain and nurture such communities. Similarly, extended family networks will be critical to future successful urban areas. As Queens resident and real estate agent Judy Markowitz puts it, “In Manhattan people with kids have nannies. In Queens, we have grandparents.”
~from “The Luxury City vs. the Middle Class” in The American by Joel Kotkin
