If Trump wants to turn a dump into a sparkling luxury resort town, instead of seizing Gaza why not do this with Detroit?
Simply move all 700k people out temporarily, get other cities like Chicago or Pittsburgh to take them in (or even better, ship them to Toronto and let the Canadians deal with them), demolish everything with the exception of downtown, and rebuild the whole thing from scratch. Make the new Detroit into the Monte Carlo of the Midwest. Think about it. Citizens could even demand human-centred European infrastructure which favours pedestrians and cyclists instead of cars and mixed-use buildings instead of waste-of-space single family homes.
Someone suggest this to Trump.
I don't know much about Detroit, I've never set a foot in US and don't intend to, but to me, Detroit seems like a typical case of ongoing gentrification: a city built on old-school industry, which then got delocalized to the East, and after a period of complete lumpenization, is now starting to get investments because land became cheap and people who want to live to in a city but aren't rich start moving there, especially artists and unsuccessful petit-bourgeois entrepreneurs I imagine.
Then once the city becomes trendy again, blocks get rebuilt, organic food shops start popping up there and there, and so on. The rents will rise and rise, and all the people who made the city trendy will be outpriced and repeat the process elsewhere despite themselves.
It's a process that takes decades, it can happen in whole cities or only a few districts of one, but it happened in many American and European cities, and it will never stop as long as landlords and banks have as much power over tenants and small businesses as they do today.
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By "unsuccessful petit-bourgeois", I meant that they need to go to second-rate cities, because they can't run a profitable bagel shop in Brooklyn for example, due to various factors. They are less risk adverse than some, and so decide to open their business in a city like Detroit or Marseille, because they see these cities as a good opportunity to exploit a market before everyone else, before it becomes trendy.
Artists aren't necessarily petit-bourg, they are often proles actually, and they just want cheap rents and a part-time job to dedicate the rest of their time to art, and once they end up creating a significant local culture, the bourgeoisie can capitalize on it and then it's like the cycle I described above
>>2185875>>2185868i HATE female models from upper and middle class families. female models would refuse to live in the ghettos of detroit..therefore we should FORCE EVERYONE to live in such similar conditions.
I actively hope the poorest possible poverty befalls all humanity and all wealth itself is annihilated, so pretty girls suffer what's it like to be a non-model male
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