Very important questions!

I think this is partly the result of the growing takeover of representative government by corporate America, corporate China, University of Pennsylvania. We have insisted upon a bankrupt government and of course the corporate world has an easy answer.

Secondly, in my opinion, we have a growing separation in society between a small upper class and everyone else. The ruling elite are trying to divide an ignorant and fear filled middle class and make the most disadvantaged citizens the villains whom cause all of societies' ills.

What is taking place in UCD is simply the physical manifestation of this class division. Cities will be divided so that the elite can have all resources concentrated for their benefit and other city neighborhoods will shape up like any ghetto with no services at all. I saw a DP article about a year ago and a Penn city planning expert essentially laid out this need to bust up Philadelphia. This is the direction that I see our society and city moving towards.

It's almost an intrinsic part of the name: Special services for special people.

Great questions,
Glenn
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Why do certain districts need "special" services?

What services does UCD provide (would a BID/CID/NID provide?) in University City that simply aren't available to residents in other parts of the city?

Is the City of Philadelphia ultimately responsible for providing the services offered by UCD?

If the city was well governed, could we be satisfied with what our municipal government could provide?

What would be our part -- as individuals, households, communities, institutions -- in supporting municipal services? (E.g., not littering, putting trash out for collection properly, and on up from there...)

Does such an approach actually work in thousands of towns and cities across the country and around the world, and/or is the model assumed for our area really the more viable approach?

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