I think one of the significant things that have happened in this city is that the people of the city have begun to take into their own hands the change. So the motivation is coming from city people themselves rather than people from outside the city trying to do things in the city. So there is a feeling that people from the city can change their environment. They just try to line their pockets. There is an optimism, certainly, in the city.
Any city has an enormous impact on the region around it in dozens of ways.
If things operate properly, the health and vitality of a city can have an enormous impact on the health of a region. Most of the social problems hit cities before they hit the outlying areas and how well these problems are dealt with in the city will determine how well they're dealt with in other areas. And it exports it very efficiently. It pays a region to have a healthy city. When some 200 churches were planted in Boston, those 200 churches planted, almost automatically, about 600 churches in the region simultaneously, without a big, planned effort.