POLITICS, LEGENDS, AND CITIZENSHIP - RESPONSE

The author argues that understanding the linkages between scientific t heory and folk traditions and invoking mutually supporting urban legen ds can nurture a moral discourse that facilitates more human urban red evelopment efforts. He believes that Monti's paper overstates the sepa ration between economics and culture, does not adequately account for recent structural changes that create new obstacles to the desired plu ralism, and fails to address the more problematic issue of the politic s of achieving the new moral order. How the connection between a geogr aphic area and a moral order can be established remains elusive.