While it is not always easy to see, a concern with thriving reminds us of the benefits and obligations that come with belonging to a commonweal. Thriving cannot be accomplished alone. I think there is just a group of the rich "Hollywood foke" …show more content…
For there to be an active economy, there has to be efficient transportation. So in every major city, public transportation is a must to keep up throughout the moving city because that is how people get around to keep the city thriving and that is how goods are transported to keep people happy and getting supplies around to keep building it to make it easier to get from one place to another. The infrastructure of a city is what makes it, in many ways, a good or bad place to live and work. It's the physical or structural part of the city. These things include its transportation systems (roads, bridges, highways, public transportation, sewage system, utility systems (gas, electricity, water treatment and delivery), and its buildings (schools, court houses, sports facilities, and its public and private housing developments). If a city's infrastructure is old and in decay, this makes these important systems unsafe, unattractive, or unreliable, and so that city is not such a great place to live anymore. Fewer people will want to move to such a place to live and work. Also, fewer businesses will want open offices and factories in a city with a deteriorating infrastructure, so there will be fewer jobs for the people who live …show more content…
Trade brings 90% of any city/country's money. If you can't transport, you can't trade. When Washington experienced severe winter storms this year, stores could not get goods to sell, so prices all had to go up, and you know what THAT leads to. The reasons are both macro and micro. Unfortunately manufacturing, the base of its economy, and the economies of many other rust belt cities, is dying in this country. There are many reasons for this, most glaring is the competition, both fair and unfair, from China and other