THE CITY THAT NEVER WAS

One of the most troubling consequences of the 2008 global financial collapse was the midstream abandonment of several large-scale sp eculative urban and suburban projects. The resulting scars on the landscape, large subdivisions with only marked-out plots and half- finished roads, are the subject of The City That Never Was, an eye-opening look at what happens when development, particularly what the author calls speculative urbanism, is out of sync with financial reality. Presenting historical and recent examples from around the worldf...[Read more]