Comment 35913

By Tammany (anonymous) | Posted December 01, 2009 at 09:12:21

"Don't the majority of Hamilton want to have a downtown that is a destination?"

Actually, the majority of Hamiltonians don't really care. In fact, many of them display a marked hostility to anything perceived to be progressive and/or urban. The thing is, most Hamiltonians don't really see themselves as city dwellers, or see Hamilton as a major city at all.

That's what's so frustrating with Hamilton: the small town mentality, but without the small town sense of being in place.

The real job in remaking Hamilton will be in reeducating the citizenry to reconceive of their city as something much grander and more meaningful than they hitherto believed it to be.

I remember reading an article in the New Yorker about Newark's new mayor Cory Booker and how he reinjected a sense of glamour into a once proud and important, but now badly faded, city. That's what Hamilton needs. Bad.

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