http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin…
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive
Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.
The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature.
Local politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area.
Having outlined his strategy to Barack Obama during the election campaign, Mr Kildee has now been approached by the US government and a group of charities who want him to apply what he has learnt to the rest of the country.
Mr Kildee said he will concentrate on 50 cities, identified in a recent study by the Brookings Institution, an influential Washington think-tank, as potentially needing to shrink substantially to cope with their declining fortunes.
Most are former industrial cities in the “rust belt” of America’s Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis.
The only thing you contribute to this is your childish subject line.
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p>At least this time you have the decency to actually acknowledge that you are not the author.
What they’re up to is more complex and is still ongoing.
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The problem of abandoned lots in declining cities which lack the industry to draw residents is an extraordinarily daunting one, and this seems to be a decent solution for such cities. Do you have an alternative?
He didn’t spend more than a minute on his post. I doubt he even read the whole article.