[PEN-L:7275] Re: Rebuilding + Repopulating Cities in America (was Harvey...)

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

>I have no idea what the resolution looks like, but at present rebuilding
>and repopulating urban areas and stopping (and better yet, reversing)
>suburban sprawls in the United States would, I think, be good for both
>cities and rural ecosystems.
>
>Here at least (if not in other countries) urbicide and environmental
>destruction have gone hand in hand. So, for the time being, there is no
>contradiction between the love of urban living and environmentalism in the
>United States.

I'm with you 100% on this. The American solution to the urban-rural
contradiction, suburbanization, seems like the worst possible solution.

Doug