>My God! Yoshie, now you've gone far too far. At this point, I
>would prefer Pol
>Pot to Yoshie. I spent my youth waiting to get out of Youngstown -- actually,
>New Castle, 15 miles to the east.
>
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>> What the USA needs, however, is a "reverse Pol Pot" strategy: moving
>> people from countryside (= suburbs & exurbs) to cities (like Akron,
> > Detroit, Flint, & Youngstown).
OK, OK -- not to Youngstown as is (horrors!), but to Youngstown to be transformed into a garden city of your dream through creative manual & mental labor.
Or is Youngstown irredeemable? My proposal -- which I floated a while ago on PEN-l -- did not attract our Canadian comrades either, I recall.
In any case, it's either socialist repopulation & rehabilitation of cities or barbaric destruction of ancient forests, wetlands, farmlands, etc. through uncontrolled suburban & exurban development in the USA. The choice is clear!
Yoshie