[PghBaldy]

Obama hates inner city youth!

[Spktyr]

I wouldn’t disagree with razing De-Riot, but Memphis???

[torchthemummy]

Most are former industrial cities (run into the ground economically by Democrats) in the "rust belt" of America's Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis.

Fixed it!

[PghBaldy]

I live in Pittsburgh. There are places that could use bulldozing, but not my neighborhood.

[Stentor]

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.

[Glenn]

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.

[wardaddy]

major parts of Detroit, Cleveland, Memphrica and jackson come to mind

[PghBaldy]

As long as her is killing the babies the elderly and infirm... Is this man nothing but death and destruction?

[VOA]

“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

[School of Rational Thought]

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.

[Sarajevo]

I vote for New Orleans, Washington, and San Fran (starting with pelosi’s house).

[tcrlaf]

“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.

[GeronL]

Maybe Oakland or Detroit.

How about we try some freedom?

[nathanbedford]

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. Is this how the system works in the Imperial presidency?

Contrive to get the ear of our Illustrious Leader and you get your scheme imposed throughout the land by fiat. Intrigue Adolf Hitler in your conception of fascist art and,blitzschnell a monument will be built. Why do we do this with a top down approach? Cannot cities control even the structures on their own turf? Some academic comes up with a plan (which actually sounds good to me), get the ear of the president, and the full catalog of resources and money of the federal government is employed to restructure every majority African-American city from Washington.

Is this how our hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars are being doled out by this administration? Are all of the people who have the president's ear earnest academics, or are they black nationalist opportunists? How do we know? Is there congressional oversight? If there is congressional oversight is vitiated by our system of one-party rule?

Who draws the lines where these sections will be bulldozed? If the local planning boards do it, are they in effect only rubberstamps of the bureaucrats from Washington who control the purse? If so, what has become of the rights of local residents to democratically vote in or vote out their representatives who normally draw these lines?

The questions go on and on. The point is not whether the idea is a good idea or bad idea. The point is that the whole system is spinning out of control, in the dark, and corruption, ego tripping, and mismanagement are the inevitable handmaidens of this lack of control and transparency.

[x_plus_one]

Kansas City has already lost over 100,000 in the inner city in the past ten years. The change is refreshing. More green spaces and less blight. It’s not so much a gentrification as a cleansing.

[dasboot]

“THE PLANNERS ARE COMING!!!
THE PLANNERS ARE COMING!!!!”

[driftdiver]

Is it any surprise really? For decades economic policy has forced jobs from the rural areas supporting many of these cities. Then they’ve forced the businesses to close or relocate.

They are forcing people to move to areas of high population density just to have a job.

[Uncle Miltie]

0bummer:

Destroy Cars.

Destroy Cities.

Destroy Banks.

Destroy Wealth.

Destroy Jobs.

Destroy Health Care.

Destroy EVERYTHING!

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[tet68]

I think they should try it out on Gaza, see if
it works or not.

[usmcobra]

I’m wondering how they are going to do this.

Will they just seize people properties and kick them out or will the government buy them out with force?

And will they bulldoze the projects and slum areas first relocating the denizens to more affluent areas by buying up foreclosed housing on the cheap?.