[Tagging] how to tag US townships?

[John F. Eldredge]

Dieter Driest may have heard a garbled description of "urban renewal", a now-largely-discredited urban-planning technique where large areas of substandard housing were torn down and replaced by government-built public housing, what the British would term council estates.  Some of the land was used for new housing, some used for other large projects such as highway construction.  I am not aware of any cases of large areas simply being abandoned; downtown land is too valuable for this to be likely.  Current urban-planning philosophy calls for mixing low-income and moderate-income housing in the same neighborhoods.

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Subject :Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?
From  :mailto:john at jfeldredge.com
Date  :Wed Oct 20 14:44:53 America/Chicago 2010


I am not aware of any location in the USA (or anywhere else in the world, for that matter) where a downtown was torn down for fear of riots.  There are a few cities where large numbers of buildings have been abandoned by their former owners because of the collapse of the local economy, after the primary employer went out of business, but that is not the same thing.

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Subject :Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?
From  :mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com
Date  :Wed Oct 20 13:24:52 America/Chicago 2010


2010/10/20 Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net>:
> The definitions are well-established.


but they are not reflected in the (international/main part of) the
wiki for key=place.

I don't know if the British do tag strictly according to the place
description, but I know that Italians and Germans don't. In Europe a
town can be quite small, but will still be a town and a village can
nowadays be quite big and still remain a village.

In the US I am not sure what are your criteria, what about density, I
am also not sure how to tag downtowns (the space where your cities
were until they were torn down in the 60ies and 70ies due to fear of
riots (scnr, sorry, that's maybe not true for all of them) etc.


>  Deal with it.  If you want to change
> them, go ahead and try but I’m sure there’ll be a lot of pushback from the
> community.


I doubt it in this case, as fixed population numbers can't be the
solution to this problem which is highly dependent on density and
spacial distribution/structure.

cheers,
Martin

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