obama to bulldoze US neighborhoods as part of drastic "shrink to survive" policy

[pete2]

Should Ireland also follow suit and start bulldozing?

The US government is looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature ..

..involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature. Local politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area...

Karina Pallagst, director of the Shrinking Cities in a Global Perspective programme at the University of California, Berkeley, said there was "both a cultural and political taboo" about admitting decline in America...
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive - Telegraph

[mutley]

There is a thread on this already

[islands]

that's the Limerick regeneration plan, isn't it?