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In 1983, the U.S. Congress allocated more than $42 million for relocation efforts.[22] Nearly all of the residents accepted the government's buyout offers. More than 1,000 people moved out of the town and 500 structures were demolished. By 1990, the census recorded 63 remaining residents.[23]
David DeKok • Centralia, Pennsylvania
People have been inspired to create new spaces, rituals and infrastructure amongst ruins for millennia, artists in particular. From London to Berlin to Rome to Manila, many cities have been continually built anew atop the wreckage of their pasts, with creative groups often leading the way.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
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Thus the NP developers, motivated by a federal land-grant policy that encouraged reckless building, isolated the Twin Cities.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
Capital hit California like a meteor, alien tendrils surging from the crash site.
Malcolm Harris • Palo Alto
of any damage being done to our capital stocks.3
Paul Gilding • The Great Disruption
The next month, Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, taking out the island’s power grid, water system, and communications. It also exposed the parlous state of affairs in the United States’ largest remaining colony. Although Luis Muñoz Marín’s strategy of using tax loopholes to draw mainland corporations to the island had dramatically improved
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