Long before I ever heard of Strong Towns, probably decade(s) before it existed in fact, I observed a pattern as a teenager in my sunbelt home state in that ther

Long before I ever heard of Strong Towns, probably decade(s) before it existed in fact, I observed a pattern as a teenager in my sunbelt home state in that there was perpetually a band of new development that was the "nice" part of town while previously "nice" areas were left to decay and become the "bad" parts of town. I didn't know anything about how this was financed nor would it have crossed my mind at that time, but it was quite evident to me even without having ever left suburbia nor lived long enough to see more than one cycle of development that neighborhoods were essentially considered disposable, and it struck me as a bit strange.