I don't understand why we bother. If places outlive their economic usefulness, just move somewhere else. That's exactly what people did with Detroit - moved on.
Why bother saving, or resurrecting it? Did we forget how to build grand buildings?
Why bother saving, or resurrecting it? Did we forget how to build grand buildings?
Grand buildings are beautiful, but they're also much more expensive to build, and to climate control, and they take up a lot more real estate that could be housing for people.
Bill Gates or Elon Musk could afford to build buildings like that. Or they could use their resources to fight malaria and climate change and get humans into space. And as between them, they're probably making the better choice.