How to Break an American City, According to Steven Greenhut, Shikha Dalmia, Eric Boehm, Scott Shackford, and Ed Krayewski
The municipal bankruptcy mess is heading to a local government near you.
With its abandoned libraries, boarded-up neighborhoods, and broken-down factories overrun by weeds, Detroit has long been seen as an extreme (and extremely photogenic) outlier in American urban decline. Surely no other city could match its combination of industrial overconcentration and municipal ineptitude. No other once-proud metropolis could so closely resemble the site of a zombie apocalypse. But, as Steven Greenhut et al. explain, the municipal bankruptcy mess is heading to a local government near you.