Pittsburgh in the year 2050
Dubai in 1991 and 2006:
From a BBC news story about how everyone on the planet is going to be crammed into cities by the year 2050.
But luckily for us, this probably won't happen in Pittsburgh:
"[There are] 1,200 on the city's condemned buildings list. [...] The city's tentative budget includes $1.88 million for demolition, which would pay to raze 300 buildings. That would just keep pace with new condemnations."
Bob O'Connor announced his plan to "Redd Up Pittsburgh" shortly before the All Star game. Then Irony stepped in and gave him cancer of the nervous system. Back down, Bob! The city grew these abandoned buildings for a purpose -- to keep housing prices low and traffic moderate and Californians out. It's a perfect system. By 2050, if global warming works out and we don't change our name, Pittsburgh will be a lush temperate jungle full of artists, philosophy professors, telecommuting CS majors and abandoned industrial ruins overgrown with blackberry canes. Yay!
From a BBC news story about how everyone on the planet is going to be crammed into cities by the year 2050.
But luckily for us, this probably won't happen in Pittsburgh:
"[There are] 1,200 on the city's condemned buildings list. [...] The city's tentative budget includes $1.88 million for demolition, which would pay to raze 300 buildings. That would just keep pace with new condemnations."
Bob O'Connor announced his plan to "Redd Up Pittsburgh" shortly before the All Star game. Then Irony stepped in and gave him cancer of the nervous system. Back down, Bob! The city grew these abandoned buildings for a purpose -- to keep housing prices low and traffic moderate and Californians out. It's a perfect system. By 2050, if global warming works out and we don't change our name, Pittsburgh will be a lush temperate jungle full of artists, philosophy professors, telecommuting CS majors and abandoned industrial ruins overgrown with blackberry canes. Yay!