Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists
by pjc50 on Saturday September 23, 2017 @03:07PM
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A lot of UK cities suffered 70s/80s economic decline, to the extent that the government was discussing "managed decline" for Liverpool: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-16355281 . Even London suffered a decline in population from ~8m to ~6m.
But somehow I don't think it ever got quite as bad as Detroit. It seems that somehow American politics can just abandon cities, and declare their failure not a problem for the nation or the state.
(Last time I ran the numbers, 80s Detroit was more dangerous than troops-in-the-streets Troubles Belfast, but I don't have it to hand)
But somehow I don't think it ever got quite as bad as Detroit. It seems that somehow American politics can just abandon cities, and declare their failure not a problem for the nation or the state.
(Last time I ran the numbers, 80s Detroit was more dangerous than troops-in-the-streets Troubles Belfast, but I don't have it to hand)