[Tagging] how to tag US townships?

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/10/20 John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>:
> 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.


yes sure, simply abandoned wouldn't hit it, but the structure changed
entirely from dense to open space, with huge amount of surface
parking, which is not exactly the typical centre use.

cheers,
Martin