A headline to stop you in your tracks: US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive. The article is mostly about Flint – the poorest city on the US:
“The obsession with growth is sadly a very American thing. Across the US, there’s an assumption that all development is good, that if communities are growing they are successful. If they’re shrinking, they’re failing.” …
Already, some streets peter out into woods or meadows, no trace remaining of the homes that once stood there.
Reads like some some kind of post-civilisation dystopia novel. Sadly, the obsession with growth is probably intrinsic to the continued existence over hundreds of thousands of years of the human life-form. Survival isn’t usually predicated on a will to shrink.
(The picture – unrelated but related – is from a series of abandoned amusement parks in China, Japan, S. Korea and Laos.)
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