Comments on: Abandoned US http://citizenreporter.org/2008/07/abandoned-us/ Under-reported news by a Portuguese-American, activist-journalist based in Amsterdam. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:21:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mindcaster http://citizenreporter.org/2008/07/abandoned-us/comment-page-1/#comment-163503 mindcaster Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:35:57 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1486#comment-163503 Mark, I highly recommend you subscribe to <a href="http://kunstlercast.com/" rel="nofollow">James Howard Kunstler's podcast</a>, author of "The Geography of Nowhere": <blockquote>I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work.</blockquote> Mark, I highly recommend you subscribe to James Howard Kunstler’s podcast, author of “The Geography of Nowhere”:

I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work.

]]> By: Chris Weagel http://citizenreporter.org/2008/07/abandoned-us/comment-page-1/#comment-163486 Chris Weagel Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:08:28 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1486#comment-163486 Slowly, I think it will happen, if, among many other things, we can get beyond simply turning these buildings into over-priced "luxury" lofts. Those won't be of any help when compared to the value such spaces have as the factories, warehouses, mills, etc they once were. Use Google Maps to find Michigan Ave and Junction in Detroit. It's the intersection near where I've been teaching. Slowly, I think it will happen, if, among many other things, we can get beyond simply turning these buildings into over-priced “luxury” lofts. Those won’t be of any help when compared to the value such spaces have as the factories, warehouses, mills, etc they once were.

Use Google Maps to find Michigan Ave and Junction in Detroit. It’s the intersection near where I’ve been teaching.

]]> By: Nicholas http://citizenreporter.org/2008/07/abandoned-us/comment-page-1/#comment-163485 Nicholas Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:57:27 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1486#comment-163485 I wish that would happen Mark. Maybe I'm a pessimist, because I always see the future as an empty, desolate world with empty buildings everywhere. I wish that would happen Mark. Maybe I’m a pessimist, because I always see the future as an empty, desolate world with empty buildings everywhere.

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