You're saying the murder of 225,000 people with the atomic bomb was a "good thing" because of how the city was rebuilt?
In several cases in European history, property was expropriated after disasters and then was turned into social housing.
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In many American case studies, the natural hazard precipitates the social disaster and leads to displacement. Of course when the victims are relatively affluent & have political power (as is the case for many North Bay fire victims) the outcomes are different.
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Back to the question -- do you think it should be built according to the status quo? Or do you think there should be some kind of process to at least consider other possibilities with existing community input? If so, how would one structure it?
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But I think it's actually dangerous to think of disasters as opportunities to re-imagine the social contract & urban form.
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If this were West Oakland, or Treasure Island, and people were advocating LIPH teardowns for privatized housing, then I'd say its dangerous. In this case, the only danger is that it looks insensitive.
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