Talk:Urban decay

message: Seriously, it's full of weird racist comments, directed at pretty much every ethnic group.
It also contradicts itself sometimes in the same paragraph.
Thirdly it uses the Cato institute as a source, aren't those guys paid by the Koch brothers to say whatever fits their agenda? Biased sources are not sources 
The tone of the article is highly partisan, it looks like someone of one political group got on here and wrote a bunch of stuff, then someone from the other political group got here and wrote a bunch of stuff, and now we have a partisan article full of misinformations that contradicts itself and reads like a Facebook argument. 
Needs rewriting for neutrality, racism, bad sourcesTaurich (talk) 15:17, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Article needs rewrite

message: I understand the phenomenon of "white flight" but parts of this article make it seem like racism is the #1 cause of urban decay. Suburbanization is not a purely racist process. I think this page should be a little more neutral on the topic
I have the same comment. Yes, it is true suburbanization is a leading cause of urban decay, but using the term "white flight" is not appropriate. It brings a racist aspect into an article that has nothing to with race. A better term would be the one I used, "suburbanization", and editing that paragraph to fit it. If noone else does this after a while, I'll do it, it's just a small edit changing a couple sentences. 65.23.209.180 (talk) 03:51, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Racism

message: Free trade causes urban decay?  I have never heard this argument.  If anyone can find any sources which can back up such an assertion, make it known.  Until then, it's gone.  Seriously, though, this article requires major work.  I do not consider myself qualified to re-write it, but at the very least I think I could figure out how to best reorganize the section-breakdown of the article.  If you have any suggestions, please post them.
-Max
Hey Max, I have included a link to economic restructuring. This can better illustrate how free trade/globalization indirectly contributes to urban decay. The idea being a shift from manufacturing to service sector outlets depletes the industrial base from urban cities and moves them to low-cost sites in smaller metropolitan areas (smaller SMSAs) and even overseas. That's why Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, and other previous industrial landscapes show signs of urban decay and infrastructure disrepair. See economic restructuring for a better analysis. 
-Parfait   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Socipoet (talk • contribs) 12:00, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Problems

message: It seems like it would be appropriate for this article to be broken down into sections by county, US/UK/Cananda/other EU countries etc.--167.80.244.204 17:02, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Break down by county 

message: * http://www.satanslaundromat.com/sl/
* http://www.artinruins.com/arch/decay/
* http://www.m-u-d.ca/
* http://oabonny.co.cc  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lectrichead (talk • contribs) 13:57, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Links to add? 

message: Mention that it all it takes is one person missing mowing their lawn just once to start the downward spiral :-)
Anyway, do mention lawns.
Jidanni 20:16, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unmaintained lawns 

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 05:56, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: The image/caption combination seems to have a bit too much of a "the man lied to us" vibe, and seems a little too artificial in the message being conveyed. Whereas it could merely state the basic facts regarding their dual visits to that location to address urban decay, it instead simplifies/mischaracterizes their appearances as promise-making sessions (false ones at that), to make it fit with the image and thus make a point about Washington's lack of action. While this is fine for editorials, or leftist human interest blogs, it really has no place here, in my opinion. But I'll submit that to the rest of you and will wait to hear some other thoughts on it. NeutronTaste (talk) 04:36, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Promises" image

message: There are more places with Urban Decay maybe you can add some pictures of South Central Los Angeles  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.126.218.129 (talk) 23:39, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: More Images Please

message: This article suffers from wp:recentism, and thus fails to mention many of the ancient cities that have gone into the dark or declined before the 19th century, such as the above-mentioned towns. How does historical urban decay compare to modern urban decay? 68.36.120.7 (talk) 03:08, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harappa, Mohenjo Daro, Ancient Rome, Luoyang, Angkor, etc. 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I have 2 Problems with this article:
1) missing historic aspect of the problem: I can understand that this article isn't really about history but I guess it would be good if some historic examples would at least be mentioned in order to show that this isn't just a modern problem. Some links would be enough. You don't have to discuss it in depth. One of the most drastic examples I know of is Rome after the fall of the western empire. A city that had a bit less than a million inhabitants in antiquity and shrank to about 30k? inhabitants during the early middle ages before it started to grow again. (Quote from the Rome wiki site: Its population declined from more than a million in 210 AD to 500,000 in 273[41] to 35,000 after the Gothic War,[42] reducing the sprawling city to groups of inhabited buildings interspersed among large areas of ruins, vegetation, vineyards and market gardens.[43]) 
There are also examples where large towns completely disappeared (Babylon, Memphis and Thebes(Egypt), Karakorum etc. → Lost_city)
2) Several articles about this topic seem to be overlapping:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterurbanization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinking_cities
etc...
It might be good to either distinguish or combine those articles. 
If you only want to talk about the current problem since the article is meant to be part of a series about sociology/economy or something like that... it should clearly be mentioned. Furthermore we would require links to some page about historic urban decay. I was searching about the historic examples for the decay of cities and wikipedia pointed me to this article, which in it's current form is not really helpful I think. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valmendil (talk • contribs) 03:01, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Historic examples + Overlap 

message: That photo is Arlington Street, which was evacuated due to radioactive Thorium poisoning from the nearby General Gas Mantle Company. That is NOT urban decay, and certainly not typical of situation in Camden. This photo should be removed. --SlushyMix (talk) 03:31, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove photo of Camden 

message: This one has been tagged for the better part of a decade.  Alas, I'm largely unfamiliar with their urban landscape and planning.  Can anyone familiar with said care to improve the section?  Thanks. Surv1v4l1st ╠Talk║Contribs╣ 21:07, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  France section 

message: “Multiculturalism” was added on the 3rd by an IP. Political shots aside, do other editors agree with this? Should it be removed? 2A00:23C6:95CE:B401:954B:92B8:FC88:29CB (talk) 22:58, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiculturalism 

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