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The city that will be
The city that will be
"THIRTY YEARS AGO, in their book ''3000 Years of Urban Growth," the historians Tertius Chandler and Gerald Fox calculated that of all the cities that had been flooded, burned, sacked, leveled by earthquake, buried in lava, or in some way or another destroyed worldwide between 1100 and 1800, only a few dozen had been permanently abandoned. Cities, in other words, tend to get rebuilt no matter what." (...)
"The details of such a plan would be devilishly complex, and would raise questions from the practical (where to put it?) to the almost philosophical (would it still be the same city?). Lawrence Vale, head of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and co-editor of the recent book ''The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster" (Oxford), sees economic and political considerations effectively mooting any such proposal. ''My sense is that the number of people who raise that question is directly proportional to their distance from New Orleans," he said. ''The combination of the level of financial investment that people already have in the city with the level of emotional attachment that they have to the place makes it very hard to think about moving the city.""
find this article: Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/09/04/the_city_that_will_be/?page=full
"THIRTY YEARS AGO, in their book ''3000 Years of Urban Growth," the historians Tertius Chandler and Gerald Fox calculated that of all the cities that had been flooded, burned, sacked, leveled by earthquake, buried in lava, or in some way or another destroyed worldwide between 1100 and 1800, only a few dozen had been permanently abandoned. Cities, in other words, tend to get rebuilt no matter what." (...)
"The details of such a plan would be devilishly complex, and would raise questions from the practical (where to put it?) to the almost philosophical (would it still be the same city?). Lawrence Vale, head of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and co-editor of the recent book ''The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster" (Oxford), sees economic and political considerations effectively mooting any such proposal. ''My sense is that the number of people who raise that question is directly proportional to their distance from New Orleans," he said. ''The combination of the level of financial investment that people already have in the city with the level of emotional attachment that they have to the place makes it very hard to think about moving the city.""
find this article: Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/09/04/the_city_that_will_be/?page=full
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