City planners took pieces of New Haven, broke them up, and created redevelopment plans, ... Some of them turned out to be wonderful, but in other parts housing was thoughtlessly torn down and very bad decisions were made. |
I've been here for so long that I've seen all the ups and downs, ... I've seen what works and what doesn't and how we learn from our mistakes. Things that are right for a city at one point go away, so there is no use being nostalgic. |
When the Lee administration decided to create all one-way streets, they weren't necessarily thinking about the fact that they were serving people who lived in the suburbs and were trying to get out of the city, not into it, ... The mayor was forced to accept the fact of suburbanization, but he didn't think about the ramifications. |