Does anyone know if Buffalo's leaders have thought about a plan to shrink the city? I have been reading about Detroit, Manchester U.K. and Liverpool U.K. and how different cities are dealing with population loss. This is a world-wide issue. According to Cluster City Deign's web site -http://www.cluster.eu/shrinking-citiescitta-che-si-spopolono/ - "Today more than 500 major cities are losing population; more than every fourth city is a shrinking city".
Time has an article (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2030898-2,00.html) about the plans Detroit has with connecting parts of the city with light rail.
Perhaps turning parts of the city that have been abandoned to parks and linking more populated areas (new villages) by light rail would be a option.
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The city had a plan when it grew, it needs a plan while it shrinks. It is going to shrink if we have a plan or not. We need to lay out a plan so shrinking can be a benefit, not blight.
I interviewed someone in Rochester a year or so ago because Rochester was considering a plan similar to Detroit. At the time I was told that Buffalo was planning to doze areas of blight and then use some for urban gardening and set others up for redevelopment. Costs a lot of money to maintain the infrastructure and emergency services for a large sparsely populated but urban landscape.
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I wonder if the cost effectiveness in the long run would prove beneficial. It sounds like a very cool plan, actually!
I also came across a project done by the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, pertaining specifically to Buffalo as a shrinking city. It actually went into great detail with different plans for different parts of the city.
Here is the link...
http://shrinkingcitystudio.wordpress.com/
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It's a great question and overall a simple answer. If there's too much unused land, you convert it to something useful. The free market will determine a lot of the land use.
Ideally, lot sizes would expand. The older urban lots are typically smaller than their newer counterparts are in suburbs. But with patchwork abandonment, it's hard to increase every lot by 25%, for example. Although perhaps it will be interesting to see an urban block with 5 houses where there used to be 10, and 3 of the remaining houses have at least doubled their size by annexing adjacent vacant lots.
The alternative is green space, of course. Does every urban neighborhood want kids playing in any of the 4 or 5 mini "pocket parks" per block, each of which is so small that it nearly allows you peer into the windows and back yards of the neighboring houses? And does a city government want to try to maintain 1,222 such micro-parks scattered all over a city? And what use would these micro-parks be if they had no playground equipment and were mostly just run over by weeds?
Ideally, where there are 2 or more abandoned residential lots next to each other, it might make a good mini-park. Even better if there were 3 in a row. An entire side of a block (10 or so) would be perfect. Odds are that it wouldn't occur often by chance. A city could use eminent domain to relocate 1 or 2 remaining residences on an otherwise abandoned side of a block. It might not be cheap if the city had to compensate the residents in cash. But if the city could offer the residents a choice of any of the other nearby abandoned buildings...
The reality is that poor residents and bankrupt city governments will probably do very little with these abandoned lots. Do you imagine many poor urban homeowners purchasing adjacent vacant lots to increase their yards? Do you imagine poor city governments, with barely enough money to bulldoze these crack den eyesores, organizing and landscaping an assortment of parks?
Ultimately, I think the free market will determine the fate, as it always does. And the free market right now seems to want these lots to be filled with weeds. Someday, decades from now, maybe they will be gentrified. But urban development always seems to be driven from the top of the socioeconomic pyramid to the bottom, not the other way around. These poor inner cities are losing people for a reason. If the residents cared so much about planning parks, they wouldn't be fleeing in the first place.
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