15 thoughts on “Urban researchers in Berlin are exploring an eerie phenomenon — the modern ghost town.”

  1. Abby Adams

    There are Ghost Towns because of a demographic winter.

    We are not having children anymore.

    That’s it.

    Period.

  3. kdt

    detroit is cuting back on its lighting in an atempt to pull people in to a more consentrated area , and save energy on lighting parts of the city that no longer have a tax base to suport services
    @ abby adams did you read the artical? not one mention of falling birth rates. lots on structural econimic isues though. the fall in birth rates in industrial scocities is most likely it’s self linked to the econimic stress levels of those systems. articals with head lines like “poor girls are NOT DOOMED to teenage pregnency” reinforces the idea that reproduction is a problem in sted of the reason for existence

  4. Anonym0us

    @Abby Adams
    And just how many more unemployed young people would satisfy you? More than 50%? Don’t worry, you’ll get them.
    The fundamental problem is the industrial dystopia, period.

  5. Flopot

    Well considering the Ghost Towns being created in Ireland and Greece by Deutsche Bank (or Douchebank or DeathSpank as suggest by Google Oo), this setting is quite apt.

  7. Eric

    IMHO ghost cities is just a small piece.

    We are missing major megatrends caused by new factors. Telecommuting, internet commerce, bloated archaic (brick and mortar) governments – I mean why pay bloated down-town income/property taxes when I can live on a semi-rural plot of land with high speed internet and FedEx next-day delivery?

    Mobility is in America’s DNA. A badly run city like Detroit can be emptied in very short order by people who “vote with their feet”. I don’t believe pro-cetralization control freaks (a.k.a NWO globalists, EuroCrats, anti-industrialist pinkos, etc) understand any of the underlying trends towards an open distributed decentralized world.

  8. Jayme

    UN – Agenda 21.

    Industries whose owners not located within a community pull out ‘their’ capital and move it elsewhere for reasons of profit. When any community is too dependent on the outside world for too much, it is no surprise that ghost towns can form within a matter of months or years. This is why it’s so risky to let the to-big-to-fails come to town and start buying everything up. As long as they’re extracting resources, they’re happy but as soon as there are problems, they pull the plug and you’re left holding the bag. These big interstate/international banks put less into a community than they extract and then they use the full force of law (they helped design) against anyone who would seek retribution.

    Didn’t Catherine Austin Fitts get raided and shut down for developing software that mapped out how community mortgage money was tapped by the banks?

    Catherine Austin Fitts On Genocide And The Looting Of America
    http://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/catherine-austin-fitts-on-genocide-and-the-looting-of-america/

  12. Youri Carma

    The Specials – Ghost Town http://www.popscreen.com/v/5WVJO/The-Specials-Ghost-Town

    This town, is coming like a ghost town
    All the clubs have been closed down
    This place, is coming like a ghost town
    Bands won’t play no more
    too much fighting on the dance floor

    Do you remember the good old days
    Before the ghost town?
    We danced and sang,
    And the music played inna de boomtown

    This town, is coming like a ghost town
    Why must the youth fight against themselves?
    Government leaving the youth on the shelf
    This place, is coming like a ghost town
    No job to be found in this country
    Can’t go on no more
    The people getting angry

    This town, is coming like a ghost town
    This town, is coming like a ghost town
    This town, is coming like a ghost town
    This town, is coming like a ghost town

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