Originally Posted by
casscorridor
The Suburbs will come to resemble much of the City today-- a vast expanse of abandonment, empty fields, crumbling buildings, homes, and infrastructure. Only the devestation will be more severe and will not be undone. The old City neighborhoods will be restored, and a new building stock will emerge to compliment the old... a city of 150 years of progress. The suburbs, on the other hand will see its neighborhoods die, with its reletively new building stock with it. Many people will see it easier to take Detroit's old grand buildings, built to last, and renovate them, and build new next door. While in the suburbs that will be hard, if not impossible, for the physical layout is too incompatible with real urbanism. Transit will be far and few between, and the desperate people living there will have a much lower quality of live than the currently impoverished in the City. The suburban wasteland will be far more dangeous, unlivable, and hopeless that what is currently called wasteland in Detroit. It will become a place with no past and no future. Everything was new, yet not built to last more than a generation. And a generation from now will hear about the suburbs from us, their parents, and we will tell them about the mistake, that our parents gave us to fix.