[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

How is it bad? Please explain, I'm not being a smart ass. I really don't see how how renovating and rebuilding-up parts of town that were lying vacant is a bad thing. I mean, if gangs don't even hang out there because something fell on one of them (urban myth, but who knows, they were unoccupied for years) then it is absolute blight. Nothing but an empty building. That's just plain sad. Why shouldn't they (the old buildings, I mean) be turned into cool new apartments or restaurants or cool office buildings or retail stores maybe on the ground level or maybe some dance clubs or something?? Just leaving it bombed out just leaves it bombed out.

And even if you don't live in a bigger city, it makes sense to at least have a town/urban center no matter how small/big it is near by so you can easily get to stuff/find other people in an emergency.

25 years ago in Baltimore, white flight was the opposite...whites left the city in droves to move to the suburbs to get better schools better houses and commute in the city. The city was being run down and it supposedly many areas were bad to live in. But when there was talk of the projects being torn down, as many of the blighted areas were being fixed up many started moving back in the city. Many areas where lower income people lived are being fixed up for people who could afford but....most of this progress halted when the housing market crashed.

The same thing is going on in many other cities. There are many areas where years ago were crime ridden and now affluent. And guess what....all the crime has moved out to the 'burbs.