Posted on 09/13/2009 12:07:08 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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...
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I wouldn’t disagree with razing De-Riot, but Memphis???
Fixed it!
I live in Pittsburgh. There are places that could use bulldozing, but not my neighborhood.
Will only succeed in finally killing the inner suburbs of the big cities and spreading the rot to the small cities. You can see it all over Pennsylvania now.
Pittsburgh is doing just fine, thank you.
They roll up the streets at 6PM unless there is a game.
The outskirts are where the trouble is, now and then.
I love the place.
major parts of Detroit, Cleveland, Memphrica and jackson come to mind
As long as her is killing the babies the elderly and infirm... Is this man nothing but death and destruction?
Yeah they can have Memphis... If we (TN) can get rid of it I think the whole states crime stats would drop by 20 to 30%...
Take Cincinnati, please
“Most are former industrial cities in the “rust belt” of America’s
Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit,...”
I’ve heard radio reports that the suggestion to bulldoze about half
of Detroit proper has been floated (by government officials?)
Even a National Public Radio radio I heard in the last 2-3 months
on corruption in the Detroit public school system...and that the
population of Detroit has been HALVED during the last 60 years.
Myself, I favor Rush Limbaugh’s time-honored approach, e.g. to failed
states like Albania: Don’t touch it as it decays; leave it alone as
a massive, objective and visual lesson about the dangers of one-party
politics and control.
Seeing how Detroit has been mentioned, I must post a link to the
great “Fabulous Ruins of Detroit” website.
http://www.detroityes.com/home.htm
But what about Graceland?
Pittsburgh has half its 1950 population. Loses people every year I think. Plenty of old people too.
Seems like a lot of Republican and Conservative Democratic states. Oh and these are state which include hundreds of cities. See how funny stats are. You have a list of cities with the highest poverty that supports your arguement that Democratic policies are the cause of poverty and I have some state stats that say something completely different. Yet the sample size in my stats are a lot higher. States are usually larger than cities and may be more indicative of a trend than the relatively small size of a city when compared to a state.
This twit has no conception of urban vs. rural populations let alone how the ratio of major urban area reps per 1,000 vs. town reps per 1,000 allows the former to be completely one-party (Dems) and corrupted while the smaller town reps tend not to be $ corrupted since they actually can be seen in their daily lives by many of their constituents (and thus asked, "So what's with this ____"). Also the $ spent per resident in cities is an outrageous multiplication vs. rural towns and yet of course the cities produce less-productive citizens and many welfare recipients.
I will suggest again, as I did when this article was originally posted months ago, that it is interesting to Google Earth a city like Detroit. There are huge swaths of vacant land. Look on Detroits east side as a good example.
Of course all the vacant building are not identifiable as such.
There are 48 “vacant” office buildings in Detoit, which to say the least is most of them.
Note that the Obama adminstration would not allow GM to consolidate itself in the City of Warren (where their tech center is) and forced GM to stay in Detroit. GM is one of few major businesses in Detroit.
I vote for New Orleans, Washington, and San Fran (starting with pelosi’s house).
“entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals”
This isn’t new, and it’s basic tenent of today’s SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST/GREEN Eco-Moron, to help stop the mythical ‘Global Warming’.
Bulldoze the old neighborhoods, and FORCE people in to Higher Density Housing (Think a Cabrini Green-style Soviet Housing Block), where it becomes easier to ‘provide services’, and lowers the amount of Carbon release caused by commuting.
(ie., It’s easier to CONTROL YOU.)
Here is an example of the leftist propoganda regarding this, from a website called “Green Playbook”:
“Compact and mixed-use neighborhood design is essential to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
In many places, overcoming public perception of negative implications of density is the most critical aspect of supporting green neighborhoods. To do so, it helps to highlight the benefits and share supporting statistics and concrete examples.
What is Mixed Use?
Mixing uses means allowing shops, services, amenities, jobs and homes to be located within easy reach of one another, often on the same parcel and in the same building.
Benefits:
* Community building: The opposite of single-use zoning, it helps minimize the need for automobile travel and creates a more vibrant community.
* Energy use: Mixed-use areas are excellent opportunities for district energy systems (where a central plant supplies heating and cooling to groups of buildings). Businesses and residences tend to need these services at different times, which maximizes efficiency of the systems and making for an attractive business case in many instances.
Conisiderations:
* Business impacts: To smooth the transition of a neighborhood from single-use to mixed-use, local government may need to manage business impacts on residential areas by limiting hours when noisy activities can occur, controlling access to parking, or other measures.
* Affordable housing: To maximize reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, planners should evaluate whether people who work within walking distance or good transit destinations will be able to afford the housing that will be built. If not, it’s worth exploring whether incentives, regulation changes, or other measures would support an optimum match.”
Obama is following the Radical Socialist/Enviro-Nazi playbook, to a tee.
Maybe Oakland or Detroit.
How about we try some freedom?
better than google:
Youtube:
abandoned detroit
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