Talk:Planned shrinkage

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This article is in need of improvement. --StevenL 22:15, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article needs improvement

Can you be more specific? (I think it could use a section about the lower east side and other neighborhoods.)futurebird 14:56, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, to me, the language of the article is very unencyclopedic. --Äþelwulf See my contributions. 06:31, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Good call. Tagged as such. 68.39.174.238 04:21, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roger Starr

It seems to me there should also be mention of Roger Starr and his tenure at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York. It was there that some of the planned shrinkage ideas were first circulated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.149.161.49 (talk) 20:38, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Corporate warfare / pork barrel spending

What a fascinating topic, I'd love to learn more but am not an expert in this area and this don't feel fully competent to edit the main article. I will say that redevelopment emminent domain is facilitated by "blighted" areas. To the extent to which essential city services are withdrawn, ostensibly you'd think that housing demand would fall, rents would fall, property values decline, landlords would then have less capital and incentive to make repairs. This could lead to a re-development blight study for the purpose of bulldozing an older rent-controlled apartment building so that a developer can come in and get redevelopment subsidies to build new housing. This is arguably a form of corporate welfare/pork barrell spending. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.209.33.128 (talk) 09:07, 28 April 2007 (UTC)