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US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities

Posted by samzenpus on from the out-of-the-rubble-and-into-the-future dept.

chrb writes "Two days ago Slashdot discussed broke counties grinding their tarmac roads into gravel. Now the Telegraph reveals plans to raze huge sections of at least 50 US cities to the ground. The resulting smaller cities will be more economical to run, and the recovered land will be returned to nature."

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  1. Perhaps can start with Crawford, TX by goffster · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Nothing useful ever came out of that. :)

    1. Re:Perhaps can start with Crawford, TX by pluther · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Bush could have been much smarter than I thought, and still be an idiot.

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    2. Re:Perhaps can start with Crawford, TX by interkin3tic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      The IMPORTANT ones too! How can you claim to have a political position on torture if you don't even know where W was living prior to washington DC?!?

  2. Just sayin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They could have started with New Orleans before sending all that money.

  3. Nothing good can come of this... by RagingFuryBlack · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So lets see here. They'd like to raze parts of Detroit (Homicide rate of 47.5% http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Detroit/)and Philadelphia(Homicide rate of 27.7% http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Philadelphia/). Both of which also have large ghetto type areas which house hundreds of people who I'm sure that most of us here wouldn't want living in our backyards.

    My question...Where are we moving all of these people if we're (According to TFA) "returning the land we raze to nature"? Won't this boost the crime rate and lower the property values of people who live in the smaller, surrounding suburbs?

    How this isn't considered "ethnically cleansing" cities is beyond me. It seems as if the only people who would be affected negatively would be minority groups.

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  4. Re:Urban Transit by royallthefourth · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you're scared of people, then I guess that could all be a problem.
     
    Can't have those blacks and Mexican living near me! Gotta build a house on the outskirts of town where everyone has the same economic status that I do!

  5. concentration camps by Lead+Butthead · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Relocating population from sparsely populated area into that of a smaller area does allow the government to more easily monitor and control the said population as there are now substantially smaller area to cover. I am just waiting for one day when the said area will get fenced off with electrified barbwire and guard towers with sentry guns built around the perimeters, for the... protection of the caged population.

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  6. Re:Suggestion: by ByOhTek · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe they can do Cupertino at the same time, and really make the world a better place?

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  7. Re:i can hear "Ride Of The Valkyries" by NotBornYesterday · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mods, have you lost your collective fucking minds? How the hell is this a troll? Do you know what a real troll is? A troll is not the first comment you see that you don't like. For future reference, this is a troll. Even if you don't agree with the guy, for fuck's sake don't use mod points to censor.

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