The Future Once Happened Here

"In The Future Once Happened Here, Fred Siegel tells an incredible story about the fate of America’s most influential cities: New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Standing as metaphors for America’s urban life because of their stature as nerve centers of the nation, these three citiesonce celebrated for their excitement and creativity as well as their ability to incorporate immigrants and solve the nation’s problemswere all caught up in the social policies born in the ’60s and ’70s and,