Comments on: First New Orleans…then the bridges…then Saint Louis? http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2007/08/13/first-new-orleansthen-the-bridgesthen-saint-louis/ The Future is Here Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:26:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: cnulan http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2007/08/13/first-new-orleansthen-the-bridgesthen-saint-louis/comment-page-1/#comment-7161 cnulan Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:53:23 +0000 http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2007/08/13/first-new-orleansthen-the-bridgesthen-saint-louis/#comment-7161 <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070813/sc_livescience/urbansprawlmighthavedoomedangkorwat" rel="nofollow">Urban sprawl doomed angkor wat...,</a> 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." 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.”

]]> By: cnulan http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2007/08/13/first-new-orleansthen-the-bridgesthen-saint-louis/comment-page-1/#comment-7160 cnulan Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:38:05 +0000 http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2007/08/13/first-new-orleansthen-the-bridgesthen-saint-louis/#comment-7160 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. 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.

]]> By: tootsie http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2007/08/13/first-new-orleansthen-the-bridgesthen-saint-louis/comment-page-1/#comment-7154 tootsie Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:10:50 +0000 http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2007/08/13/first-new-orleansthen-the-bridgesthen-saint-louis/#comment-7154 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. 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.

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