Ghost Cities Of 2100

Forbes ^ | 11 June 2007 | Elisabeth Eaves

[kms61]

I think this will be the fate of many cities in the Southwest unless more water sources can be found.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Type “The fabulous ruins of Detroit” into your search engine. It’s a most interesting photographic tour of a veritable lost world.

[singfreedom]

I found it interesting that San Francisco was the fastest shrinking city in California. Hummmm.....

[fieldmarshaldj]

"As Detroit flirts with demographic disaster"

Flirts ? It's been married to it for well over 35 years. A Stalinist city run by 3rd world racist despots is never going to be a success.

[raybbr]

What a site. It’s almost as if there was a war or something in Detroit.

[jslade]

I found it interesting that San Francisco was the fastest shrinking city in California. Hummmm.....

Baghdad by the Bay going limp......how ironic!

[MinorityRepublican]

The cities in the Southwest are bound to be extinct. The whole region is barren. It should never had been civilized except for a mine here and there.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"What a site. It’s almost as if there was a war or something in Detroit."

There was a war. The bad guys won.

[dennisw]

`Just went there. Thanks

[RushLake]

"It’s almost as if there was a war or something in Detroit."

If you are near, or ever get near Detroit, tune in WCHB at 1200 on the AM band in the morning between about 6:00 a.m. and noon. It will be an eye opener. The africanhyphenamerican hosts and most callers believe that all white people get out of bed in the morning with one purpose, and that is to screw the a-a. One recent discussion I listened to until I was about to retch centered around obesity in the a-a community. It was the view of many that the "Europeans" or "they" (unfashionable to refer to whites as white or accord them any humanity at all) had placed their fat producing fast food joints in close proximity to the a-a population as some plot to cause heart and other obesity related problems in the a-a community.

[pbmaltzman]

I went there too. Haunting. I was born in Dearborn and lived in Detroit suburbs until I was 10 years old, at which point my father (who had been laid off by Ford) dragged us down to Miami, Florida. This was back in 1963, and I have not been back since.

I didn't really recognize the ruins (except for Belle Isle)... but I do remember, in grammar school, being taken on a tour of at least one of the automotive plants. It was fascinating.

It's kind of spooky to see so much of Detroit in ruins, though.

[pbmaltzman]

If you are near, or ever get near Detroit, tune in WCHB at 1200 on the AM band in the morning between about 6:00 a.m. and noon. It will be an eye opener. The africanhyphenamerican hosts and most callers believe that all white people get out of bed in the morning with one purpose, and that is to screw the a-a. One recent discussion I listened to until I was about to retch centered around obesity in the a-a community. It was the view of many that the "Europeans" or "they" (unfashionable to refer to whites as white or accord them any humanity at all) had placed their fat producing fast food joints in close proximity to the a-a population as some plot to cause heart and other obesity related problems in the a-a community.

Can you say "racial paranoia"? I knew you could.

Don't know about you, but personally I don't know any whites (including myself) who spend their time trying to think of ways to screw over any blacks.

But I have run into some blacks who have exhibited similar racial paranoia. They think they're being oppressed if a white person asks them not to crack gum right in their face.

[sphinx]

Re: the ruins of Detroit. Someone should turn that into a pamphlet entitled “A Monument to Unionism.”

[WashingtonSource]

And what about Newark, N.J., a smaller version of Detroit? It is slowly disappearing.

[durasell]

Newark might surprise people yet.

[Cheburashka]

Don’t know about you, but personally I don’t know any whites (including myself) who spend their time trying to think of ways to screw over any blacks.

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I had to hand over the thinking of ways to screw over blacks to other people. Priorities, you know.

I spend all my time figuring out how to keep all Moslems in perpetual rage at repeated insults.

I figure eventually they will all stroke out.

[pbmaltzman]

I figure eventually they will all stroke out.

There ya go! ;)

[pbmaltzman]

I had to hand over the thinking of ways to screw over blacks to other people. Priorities, you know.

And, of course, division of labor is always more efficient. ;)

I spend all my time figuring out how to keep all Moslems in perpetual rage at repeated insults.

Not very difficult, but many more potential "insultees." ;)

[hinckley buzzard]

One could add Cleveland to the list. It topped out at about 850,000 in the 1950 census and is now about 475,000. I see no serious indicators that the population decline will reverse, as the city becomes Blacker and poorer. Mostly the city survives on legacy assets which will continue to dwindle over time.

Another Ohio candidate is Youngstown, once the Steel City but now a virtual urban derelict.