I’m fascinated by the situation in Detroit. A few years back the newly-elected Mayor Dave Bing enacted a plan to reduce the size of Detroit by half. I can’t even bring myself to bulldoze a neighborhood in SimCity, but here we have a Mayor intent on wiping out a Boston-sized chunk of Detroit.

I figured some bulldozers would raze entire neighborhoods, where the land would then be converted back to farmland or left to nature. Read the rest of this entry →