Rethinking Urban Renewal And Its Successes (That’s Right: Successes)

“In the national war on blight, the poor were disproportionately targeted for eviction from dilapidated downtowns to make way for parks, office buildings, sports arenas, and high-rise apartments. But a new study for the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that urban renewal, or slum clearance, had some lasting positive effects on economic growth.”

That Radical Liszt – And His Path To Modern Fame

The Sonata in B Minor “is music of drastic intellectuality, clothed in a Dantesque drama. Looking within the sonata’s mighty inner conflicts, one finds the most daring structural innovation in large-form composition since Beethoven. Claudio Arrau called it Beethoven’s 33rd sonata, probably meaning that had Beethoven lived, he would have eventually fused all elements of sonata form into a one-movement plan.”