[Eva]

So, let’s gentrify all the cities and push the poor out into the suburbs. Retake the cities, if you can stand it.

[dfwgator]

So, let’s gentrify all the cities and push the poor out into the suburbs. Retake the cities, if you can stand it.

That's what happened in France.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The thing about cities is that they’re more economically efficient at the macro level. Sprawl adds transportation and distribution costs, infrastructure costs, etc. Plus the cost of converting land into residential uses, probably forever preempting it’s use for any other economic activity.

[kearnyirish2]

“Retake the cities, if you can stand it.”

That’s exactly what Commissar Bloomberg is doing (effectively).