Quote Originally Posted by 48009 View Post
Unless you have solutions for all of the following:

[[i) Teach illiterate adults marketable skills jobs in 2013 require
[[ii) Make the unmotivated ambitious
[[iii) Prevent illiterate adults in poverty from having babies [[cyclical illiteracy and poverty)

The city can't possibly "come back." I haven't heard anybody offer solutions to these three inescapable issues.
The solution is to force all those people who meet your requirement list to live somewhere else by bringing in people who are marketable, ambitious, and literate to displace them.

The ball is currently rolling.