In the sixties, a series of flood walls and levees were created in Saint Louis in order to protect the region from the rising Mississippi River. In 1993 the river flooded in the worst US disaster of its kind. These walls and levees likely kept the damage from massive flooding from becoming worse. But as KMOV reports money is needed to replace almost two dozen gates and add about 70 water wells.
I no longer think that New Orleans would have been saved had the population been white. More definitely would have been saved, there would have been more of a sustained response….but it would still resemble the shell that it is now. I’m not a betting man, but I’m thinking that Saint Louis is likely next. And given that the majority of the population that lives UNDER the flood plain are white (white outmigration from Saint Louis concentrated in this area), the worst damage will be born by this community. If I had the time I’d develop a running tally of places like this, just to give a sense of scale to the type of infrastructure spending that no one in the federal government is willing to spend within the nation’s borders.
Interesting analogy Doc.instead of race;your point is that America or Americans are incapable of preventive measure,will not spend the capital to ward off castatrophic occurence.Stlouis has a chance its the right climate for change lets see.
No chance at all tootsie. The infrastructure of suburbia can be described as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. The denial associated with this fact is colossal. At least several major U.S. cities will have to collapse before the lesson is taken…,
STL is definitely next in line, if the condition of the power grid is any indication.
Urban sprawl doomed angkor wat…,
A new map made from satellite data reveals Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple was the center of one of the largest cities of the pre-industrialized world.
The research also sheds light on the extent of the city’s sprawl and on its mysterious downfall, factors that could be linked in a way that bears on today’s extensive and suburbanized metropolises…..Angkor required a massive infrastructural network of canals and roads to keep it running.
“This increasingly complex elaborate system would have been very difficult and expensive to maintain,” Evans said. “This is obviously something to bear in mind, considering that many cities in our contemporary world are expansive, low-density urban sprawls as Angkor appears to have been.”
From the Archives: First New Orleans…then the bridges…then Saint Louis? http://t.co/kISAW2ii
From the Archives: First New Orleans…then the bridges…then Saint Louis? http://t.co/kISwos98