Most Improved Cities? (state, rates, quality, cons)

[Vermolas]

Originally Posted by Libertine

Are we talking short term (like the last year or two) or long term improvement (like the past 5-10 years)?

no, long term like 10-20 years

[PGC301]

DC has done pretty good at getting their number of murders down. 474 in 1990 compared to 143 last year.

[FLABoyJ]

Nyc

[TB Fla]

Tampa's crime rate has went down 16% from last year and 56% in the past seven years.

Police: Tampa's crime rate down nearly 16%

Tampa's crime rate down nearly 16%

[B-ham 34]

Originally Posted by caphillsea77

Best downtown renesaince go's to Providence RI.

How about Mobile,Alabama

[B-ham 34]

Originally Posted by caphillsea77

Best downtown renesaince go's to Providence RI.

Originally Posted by Akhenaton06

I nominate Oklahoma City

Good Choice and with the Thunder in town it will only get better

[Exult.Q36]

How about Dallas with its massive expansion of its light rail system.

[Chicago60614]

NYC takes the cake if talking about crime reduction.

[knke0204]

I'd say NYC.

From the projects and non-building standards pre-WW2, vastly changed the quality of life in NYC. Had nothing been done, the sheer amount of people would have turned NYC into a Mumbai like city.

Also, from the political changes of the 1980s and 1990s. NYC was a very crime ridden, dirty city in these times. Many changes since then have been remarkable.

Again, this is just from reading articles and books however as I have never been there

[Caymon83]

NYC has done a nice job turning around, but the "bad old days" were never quite as bad as they are made out to be.

This city undoubtably went through some tough times, but the city never really collapsed in the way places like Philly or DC did.