If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.
I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn't be touched.
Cities are the crucible of civilization.
Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it.
Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy along a number of interrelated dimensions, much as a human body cannot be healthy without adequate air, water, rest, and food.
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.