The Twenty-First-Century Gold Coast and Slum

According to the text and the examples that Sampson has given, the 21st- neighborhoods will most likely vary; some will be like the example used in the segment on 60 minutes where there were models of rich and lower income housing mingled together.
There will be others that are more segregated, all black or all white, where there is both a spacial separation and class distinction between surrounding neighborhoods.

Our neighborhoods are most certainly tied to the past, it has shown to be quite the task to change the perception of rougher neighborhoods, but the effort by local communities and governments in many cases seem to be there. Sampson used the examples of the Cabrini-Green housing project and also "death corner to illustrate this. Local government wanted to clean up the area and so they evicted over  4000 people from the housing project and destroyed the building that seemed to be the epicenter of the crime and decay of the area. Most of those people relocated to similar neighborhoods where they found themselves in in some cases similar circumstances.

It is interesting and difficult to speculate as to what the 22nd- century neighborhood will look like. Sampson, mentions programs such as the Harlem Children's Zone that are designed to positively shape the youth in challenged or decaying communities but doesn't express much optimism in their sustainability on a large scale. On the other hand, one of his main points from the whole book is collective efficacy, and how people come together as a community to build the community sustain each other. In the end of the chapter, he makes the statement that people are ultimately self serving and our motives usually come back to providing or gaining for ourselves, and that includes going from governments down to individuals.

Community, in my opinion is not dying. It is trying to thrive but we keep getting in its way with our own selfish motives, which makes it in a sense bumble along. Like a said previously, efforts are there to improve neighborhoods and strengthen communities but self interested motivations whether they be political or economical continually get in our way of building each other up.