<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Phoenix: What happens when a city built on growth begins to shrink?]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by archigeek http://www.grist.org/article/Phoenix-will-rise-from-the-ashes/ Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:23:53 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/Phoenix-will-rise-from-the-ashes/1 Hmm...

I understand that due to the drawing-down of aquifers underneath the city that it is actually sinking. Indeed, it has sunk about twelve inches so far. Warm weather is for wimps anyway.

The mellotron is your friend.

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I understand that due to the drawing-down of aquifers underneath the city that it is actually sinking. Indeed, it has sunk about twelve inches so far. Warm weather is for wimps anyway.

The mellotron is your friend.

]]> Comment #2 by racc http://www.grist.org/article/Phoenix-will-rise-from-the-ashes/ Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:50:45 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/Phoenix-will-rise-from-the-ashes/2 Not Unsual

Almost all large cities have gone through periods of rapid growth and had to adjust to lower levels of growth or no growth. I'm sure Phoenix will do what these other cities have done.

It is not about us, it is about everyone. http://www.everyoneforever.org/

]]> Not Unsual

Almost all large cities have gone through periods of rapid growth and had to adjust to lower levels of growth or no growth. I'm sure Phoenix will do what these other cities have done.

It is not about us, it is about everyone. http://www.everyoneforever.org/

]]> Comment #3 by Pangolin http://www.grist.org/article/Phoenix-will-rise-from-the-ashes/ Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:19:17 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/Phoenix-will-rise-from-the-ashes/3 Pheonix, Vegas, Reno, Houston, Dallas

These will be places that will baffle people in a millenia as they try to figure out what all of the people there did to survive in such resource poor environments.

The aquifers and energy-surplus economies that allowed people to sprawl over hundreds of square miles of asphalt and desert are going away and not coming back. Without good water, good cropland and good ports these place just don't make any sense.

Our ancestors will herd goats under the concrete columns of the overpass and wonder just what the hell we were thinking sticking columns of rock up in the blasted wilderness that will remain.

Our own collections of Easter Islands.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> Pheonix, Vegas, Reno, Houston, Dallas

These will be places that will baffle people in a millenia as they try to figure out what all of the people there did to survive in such resource poor environments.

The aquifers and energy-surplus economies that allowed people to sprawl over hundreds of square miles of asphalt and desert are going away and not coming back. Without good water, good cropland and good ports these place just don't make any sense.

Our ancestors will herd goats under the concrete columns of the overpass and wonder just what the hell we were thinking sticking columns of rock up in the blasted wilderness that will remain.

Our own collections of Easter Islands.

Put the Carbon Back

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