Self-interested speculation?... quality rather than quantity...?
Perhaps Asbury Park, Asbury Partners and MM need a history lesson.
----from the Chicago Plan website----
... there was too much ugliness and squalor. The planners blamed this
condition on uncontrolled development and self-interested speculation.
The Plan maintains that the issue facing Chicago is no longer
expansion but conservation, quality rather than quantity of life. Time
and again, it declares that a city's social, cultural, and financial
well-being are inseparable. "The constant struggle of civilization is
to know and to attain the highest good," it states, "and the city
which brings about the best conditions of life becomes the most
prosperous." Lack of planning had wasted time, effort, and money,
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(Note that last line)
Werner
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