Some U.S. Cities may have to be bulldozed.

[Shatmandu]

The only way I'd think bulldozing Detroit was a good idea is if you promised to keep half the coicksuckers who live there inside as you do it.

As outlined in the article, it won't work. You're always going to have some douchebag old lady who doesn't want to move out of her mold-infested shitshack because her little Jimmy, who's now fifty and on oxygen, took his first dump there.

Joe, anti-scum

 

[Vulcan Princess]

If Eminent Domain applies, which I think it would, then I believe the government would have to help him move.

The only help the government would have to give is "just compensation" for the value of the taken property. This has been interpreted as fair market value. Unfortunately, if the market value is too low, then our poor displaced former homeowners may have nowhere they can afford to go.

 

[Trekker4747]

Anyone else get a ''ROBOCOP'' vibe from this article? you know, that whole bulldozing of Old Detroit to make way for Delta city? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html except in this case they want the Bulldozed land to go back to nature. Either way this dosen't sound like good news for the American Economy.

As fucked up as Detroit is, bulldozing it is the only way to be sure.

Sure of what, I'm not sure, but I'm sure whatever rose it's place you can be sure it'd be better than the pit that is Detroit.

For sure.

 

[PlixTixiplik]

I'm not sure how they could have nowhere to go. The government will give them a free house in a more affluent neighborhood if they choose to move, according to the article.

This is a really smart idea. It costs the cities a lot of money to provide services when half of the houses in a neighborhood are empty. Some smart urban planning (not forcibly moving people) is a win-win proposition.

 

[miraclefan]

How did ''OLD'' Detroit end up being a GOD-foresaken HELL hole to begin with?

 

[Vulcan Princess]

^^The free house is if you trust the government to keep its word. They certainly might, but then they might try to get away with the minimum they're legally required to do. I outlined the minimum legal requirement.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Yeah, they'd rip it all down and in 10 years it would be covered with suburban-style sprawl. They should concentrate on creating massive incentives to encourage people to move back into the cities and rehab existing structures and bulldoze the far-flung McMansions that are the real fucking problem.

That would make more sense for the environment. Then again, I think people see dilapidated and the environment is the last thing they think of.

Although if the bulldozed land is left unsettled, then it would still create a reasonably dense urban area, just a smaller one where services can be better provided.

Then again, I think I can tolerate this idea when it's talking about Detroit (a city I've never been to), but I have much more of a problem when it hits close to home. Philadelphia's on that list and there's no way it actually needs to be bulldozed. It just needs to attract investors to increase revenue and redevelop.

 

[Mallory]

Oregon has what they call Urban Growth Boundaries. TPTB draw an arbitrary line around an urban center. You can only build inside that line. It definitely concentrates the population, but it sure makes services like water, sewer, electricity and mass transit easier to plan for and implement.

 

[pookha]

^^The free house is if you trust the government to keep its word. They certainly might, but then they might try to get away with the minimum they're legally required to do. I outlined the minimum legal requirement.

rignt now there is some pretty nice housing in the area that forfeited to the state or city due to not paying taxes.
so there would be places to move people.

 

[hellsgate]

I'd love to see more people moved out into the Islands around Vancouver Island, (Denman, Hornby, Quadra, Cortez.) It would give the area a much needed boost & give ~major~ expansionist tourist businesses (Disney World, et al.) a reason to relocate and employ locals.