A City Reinvented: Paris Is Now Greater Paris

in the end, this will give more benefit to the corporations than the residents.

the residents might feel that the intangible benefits to themselves outweigh any "ground" (metaphorical) given to the fat cats.

but all the statistically provable data will show that the corporations benefited more in the long run.

that's the only way these "public good" get done these days. to get off the ground, the planners have to conform to the tyranny of the "win-win" ideology which western societies have blindly embraced.

studies that look back at the history of win-win public projects show that the private sector gets most of the benefits, and the citizens usually get none or almost none.