ECON-336
Quiz #10
Dr. Bell
WS04

True/False

1. _____ David Hughes left his full-time job to start the Charlotte Street Foundation, a local not-for-profit.
2. _____ David's Foundation has given a quarter of a million dollars to Kansas City area artists.
3. _____ David Hughes believes in the power of artists (and the gay community) to transform lives and cities.
4. _____ David Hughes told the story of Jack Stacks, a downtown BBQ restaurant that refused to locate in the suburbs, arguing that it was better to "be where the artists are".
5. _____ According to David, large projects usually work better than small projects; it's just harder to raise funding for big projects.
6. _____ David believes that we should put more emphasis on sports because it is easy to get the public to subsidize this kind of spending.
7. _____ In David's view, the Performing Arts Center, 18^th & Vine, and Crown Center are good examples of successful large projects.
8. _____ David emphasized (over and over) that "things need to happen in an organic way" in order to succeed.
9. _____ David suggested that Kansas City spends too much time building buildings and not enough time building communities.
10. _____ David believes that we have a "huge inferiority complex" in Kansas City.