There's a contest going on in America's cities. The Tea Partiers shout down planners. The Occupy Wall Street people "check-mic" speakers. Artists thrive but only each other. And generational preferences make for alternate visions of what a city should be. All this came together at an annual journalists city conference last weekend, sponsored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Mass., with participation by the Harvard's Graduate School of Design and Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
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