People in Cleveland, Detroit, Flint and Youngstown, and in Bilbao, Leipzig and Turin, have plenty of ideas about what cities can do with vacant and abandoned land: urban agriculture; watershed restoration and stream daylighting; side-lot programs; extensive park networks; public arts zones; new museums.
What if the government used a fraction of the billions it spends to subsidize home-building on 'unbuilding' projects instead?What we need is a new mindset. Physical growth has been a powerful American narrative, embodied in huge public expenditures from the Louisiana Purchase to the Interstate Highway System and the mortgage interest deduction. The nation now needs a parallel commitment to physical ungrowth. Ungrowth is not surrender but a phase of urban evolution.
via nytimes.com
This article will provoke thought. What are your ideas about promoting "ungrowth?"
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