Small cities are to be wasted. Photo: CC/mistress_f

Cities like Flint are simply giving up, and flattening their decaying neighborhoods.

Now the Obama Administration wants to spread the practice.

And the papers are quoting a small group of “shrinking cities” experts, who see their job as breaking the bad news to all of us. Their line: “We can offer you, ‘death with dignity.’”

“The real question is not whether these cities shrink – we’re all shrinking – but whether we let it happen in a destructive or sustainable way,” said Mr Kildee. “Decline is a fact of life in Flint. Resisting it is like resisting gravity.”

Karina Pallagst, director of the Shrinking Cities in a Global Perspective programme at the University of California, Berkeley, said there was “both a cultural and political taboo” about admitting decline in America.

via US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive – Telegraph.