http://www.newamerica.net/taxonomy/term/124 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2001/thanks_for_the_megabytes <div class="teaser-content"> <p>Urban uplift has gone through many phases in the last few decades -- from the militant community empowerment experiments of the 1960s, to the large-scale government housing projects of the 1970s, to the new public-private partnerships of the 1980s and 1990s. The latest enthusiasm is "technological empowerment" -- symbolized nowhere more clearly than Edgewood Terrace in Northeast Washington, D.C., which has achieved that peculiar status of the famous left-behind community.</p> <p>The drive down Rhode Island Avenue to Edgewood Terrace is, in a word, depressing -- rows of degraded houses, schools with boarded-up windows, half-abandoned community centers, pawn shops and multiple&hellip; <a href="/publications/articles/2001/thanks_for_the_megabytes">more</a></div><!-- /.teaser-content --> Eric Cohen Philanthropy The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program Sun, 01 Jul 2001 00:00:00 -0400 Articles 2775 at http://www.newamerica.net