Industrial towns increasingly don't need to be towns at all. Anchor industries like steel and manufacturing are so much more productive than 100y ago, you can get same output with like 1/10 the core working population. So it's industrial villages or aggregated industrial zones.
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If a town has 20,000 families, all of whom either worked at the steel mill, or had businesses that existed directly because of the steel mill, and then the mill closes, what’s a smart way to ensure a good transition for those people? Honest question. I think about this a lot.
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Singapore tries to deal with this by incentivizing retraining, which I think is a good attempt but there will always be people who fall through the cracks skillsfuture.sg/AboutSkillsFut
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