"The thing that makes cities liveable or not is governance.
Cities with good governance are great places to live because
there's so much happening. Cities with bad governance are hellish
because you simply cannot get things done and you have to cope
with all the problems that cities have without help. [...]
Governance will either render a city an chaotic morass of crime
and class divisions like in Philly, or it can make a city ordered
and beautiful like Toronto is." --
dagoski,
2009-07-24