Urban Revitalization and Community Finance: An Introduction

Authors

Peter R. Pitegoff, University of Maine School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1994

Abstract

"In his 1933 poem Burn the Cities, Nathanael West, the iconoclastic American novelist and urban radical, portrays the city as a focal point of discontent and of anguish for the world's predicament.2 From Jerusalem to Paris and finally to London, the poem winds through distressing urban imagery with scant opportunity for escape. The implicit modicum of hope is an overthrow of the present order. From older cities abroad, West imports an apocalyptic vision of cities at home."

Publication Title

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Volume

27

Article Number

1152

First Page

613

Last Page

632

Suggested Bluebook Citation

Peter R. Pitegoff, Urban Revitalization and Community Finance: An Introduction, 27 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 613 (1994).