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>be large, underpopulated midwest/northeast rustbelt city >down 20, 30, 40, 50%+ down from peak population >absolutely terrible urban blight >blocks upon blocks of prime urban land sitting underutilized, essentially greenfield development but with city services >be the government of that city >eminent domain ALL underutilized land (abandoned homes, empty lots, long-dormant industrial sites) >start developing rapid transit corridors (preferably something fixed, e.g. rail) >build low-profile stations to keep cost down >sell off or partner with developers to develop mixed-use TOD around those stations to recoup cost with now greatly improved real estate >market new development to urbanist types who'd appreciate having good, clean transit and a walkable environment for a bargain price >completely revitalize city, attract jobs >detroit >cleveland >south and west sides of chicago >pittsburgh >buffalo >milwaukee >st louis >kansas city >louisville >columbus >cincinnati
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>b-but where will the people come from? >nevada >arizona >utah >idaho >tennessee >georgia >florida >why would they move there?
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>>1888314 If this actually worked, the QLine in Detroit would be a big success by now. You also have to ask yourself why people left the city in the first place.
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>>1888314 >There are at least 10 cities that could implement this model TODAY if necessary Nope, just Detroit and maybe Flint and Gary, Indiana.
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>>1888315 The sort of people flooding into the dry western states for the good weather aren't moving back to the midwest. At best, if the water situation absolutely forces them to move the southeast is just going to get even more Yankee-fied.
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>>1888314 >area of Detroit less than 2 miles from downtown What the fuck is wrong with you over there? Across the pond you're not gonna find a city of over 500k that doesn't have a downtown at least 3 miles across.
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>>1888397 Some of it is the legacy of redlining, where investment was systemically cut off to inner city areas that had too many black people living there.
Some of it is individual middle-class racism driving people with the means to escape out to the suburbs.
And some of it is that neighborhoods with a majority black population legitimately just suck to live in.
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>>1888397 White flight to the suburbs. Ethnic white neighborhoods replaced with blacks. Whites move to the suburbs.
Jobs leave. People who have skills in Auto work move to another city for assembly. Steel mills closed down in the 70s as we came to know how dangerous domestic steel production was. Companies that did things like the seats moved out to outling cities- example Lear is in Southfield, MI. Detroit essentially peaked in 1965.
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Honestly most of the midwest's large cities just need to be partially bulldozed, if not entirely. That's just it, they don't need to rebuild anything, just trim the fat and move on, and maybe try to fix zoning. No "grand plans" none of that shit, they don't work, at least in America they dont.
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>>1888566 >Bulldoze more housing and make more people homeless which will further constrict supply and increase demand Great idea, retard
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>>1888572 These rust belt cities are slowly bulldozing themselves. Abandoned real estate is biggest in Detroit, sure, but it's a also a problem in most midwest cities. The thing is that supplying utilities and stuff to all these now remote suburban areas is just resource taxing with not a lot of benefit.
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>>1888578 >Abandoned real estate is biggest in Detroit, sure, but it's a also a problem in most midwest cities. Where?
>all these now remote suburban areas A lion's share of the abandoned housing in Detroit is within Detroit city limits. Not remote at all. Whatever is in another city is that city's problem, not Detroit's.
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the infrastructure wouldnt be able to handle increased density
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This is possible but would require a few things. First, a clear federal plan to make sure such individual plans could actually work- this is effectively a grand economic/nationbuilding scheme that would be a half-century long at best. Not saying it isn’t a good idea, but this is a very large scope. These cities cannot and will not do this effectively on their own, American cities in general follow the winds of the market/economy more than anywhere else and this goes hand in hand with their half-assed planning. Secondly you would need the feds to create policies to encourage employers to move there again. Without this there’s no reason for any of the plan to ever come to fruition. It’s one thing to have pretty lines and zones on an official plan; it’s another to actually pursue it because of growth pressure.
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>>1888314 >eminent domain ALL underutilized land How about we kill all communists instead?
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>>1888721 >federal plan No. The fed has enough on it's plate, and enough power, as it is. If the Midwest/South is gonna be a shithole, don't make it our problem
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The problem is liberals lied to themselves all along that it wasn't black peoples fault that everyone left
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Gentrification is in high demand but the local poor people get really mad about it and try to kill the nice housing proposals.
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>>1888314 Revitalize as much as you want they'll still be cold gray and miserable, sunbelt is the future those places are the past.
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>>1888314 Shit man. You are so out of touch it hurts.
Just for starters, eminent domain is illegal in Michigan and in many other states.
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>>1888314 >>1888315 KC is doing this. Best part is nogs are BTFO because it's actually drawing developers to the city, but not the nog zones.
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