I saw this headline today on the web from the UK’s Telegraph…SHRINKING cities and returning them to Nature? I must be dreaming….here is a short excerpt and the link at the bottom (It appears you need to cut and paste the address into the URL bar…for some reason these blog entries don’t create a hot link…JS
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive
By Tom Leonard in Flint, Michigan
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 is 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.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html
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