Perhaps you are correct. The consequences of wasting infrastructure will not be reduced. Waste is never good.
It’s often cheaper to junk a car, tear down a house, a school, send to the scrappers an aircraft carrier. Cities are just bigger. Let the dieing die.
A hundred, maybe more has been spent on Detroit alone. Whday think, a trillion dollar HUD run, ‘remodel’ of Detroit, version 7.9?
Is there anyone that thinks that programs that ran by the name of Slum Clearance, Urban Renewal, Model Cities, Refinances Center, will work this one last time?
For ten thousand years, people lived in cities because of high transportation and communication costs and security. None of that exists in cities anymore. The last fifty years, for the first time in human existence, you can get lower transportation, communication costs and better security outside cities, by and large.