donut/doughnut effect [Fwd from Paul Frank]

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Subject: donut/doughnut effect
>>From this week's Economist:

"Whilst the centre [of Birmingham, West Midlands not Alabama] has prospered,
those parts of the city that planners call the 'inner suburb' have crumbled,
leaving many stranded in the no-man's land between the booming centre and
the plush outer suburbs. Planners call this the 'doughnut effect', which
confusingly describes the opposite phenomenon to the 'donut effect' that
American planners talk of. The American donut, a sugary ring with an empty
centre, is a fine metaphor for the rich suburbs around a collapsed inner
city. The British doughnut, a lump of indifferent carbohydrate with jam in
the middle, describes rich inner-city development surrounded by acres of
doom."

Paul
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