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Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking

Maybe they could turn it into a gated community for people who like the Post Apocalyptic genre. :cool:
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I suppose the main street in Mad Max Acres is called Snake Pliskin Drive?
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^ The alternative is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to maintain infrastructure that isn't being used. If that land is no longer urban, there's 40 sq. miles which no longer need water pipes, an extensive power grid, road maintenance, schools, police coverage, etc. Long term, it's probably a money-saving proposal.
Why not rent the land to movie companies? It'd be perfect for post-apocalyptic action flicks, Escape from New York-type movies, anything requiring vast swaths of urban ruin. They could just abandon the land and let the buildings decay -- the dirtier and more dilapidated, the better!

At least let them get in one more Robocop movie!
 
^ The alternative is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to maintain infrastructure that isn't being used. If that land is no longer urban, there's 40 sq. miles which no longer need water pipes, an extensive power grid, road maintenance, schools, police coverage, etc. Long term, it's probably a money-saving proposal.
Why not rent the land to movie companies? It'd be perfect for post-apocalyptic action flicks, Escape from New York-type movies, anything requiring vast swaths of urban ruin. They could just abandon the land and let the buildings decay -- the dirtier and more dilapidated, the better!

At least let them get in one more Robocop movie!

Wasn't there supposed to be one coming out in 2010?
 
Why not rent the land to movie companies? It'd be perfect for post-apocalyptic action flicks, Escape from New York-type movies, anything requiring vast swaths of urban ruin. They could just abandon the land and let the buildings decay -- the dirtier and more dilapidated, the better!

Would you want to live next to land like that?

I'm sure that one square mile preserved would be enough for these purposes.

Perhaps, but then that same land would pop up so often you'd get people talking about "Planet Detroit" instead of "Planet Vancouver". ;)
 
Their was a show on BBC 2 last night about the ups and downs of Detroit quite intresting.
At the end it showed you a group of people who had moved to Detroit to see if they could make enough money off the land to live.
 
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