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As for Wales ... This pattern repeats itself all over Europe. Only a few places "made" the transition from industrial settings to current economy. I am from a
by inglor_cz 2y ago
As for Wales ... This pattern repeats itself all over Europe. Only a few places "made" the transition from industrial settings to current economy.
I am from a former mining city of Ostrava, CZ. It is not completely dead, and it has been slowly improving lately, but it sorely needs something like high-speed rail to become relevant again. (The location is favourable: almost equidistant from Prague, Vienna, Warsaw and close to Krakow; a major railway hub.)
But the pattern really repeats itself all over Europe. Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Germany, Czechia, Poland - former heavy industry hotspots tend to collapse in a very similar fashion. As far as I have seen, Bilbao (ES) and Katowice (PL) were able to rebuild and reinvent themselves the best. Everyone else struggles or gave up the fight entirely.
- soco 2y agoYou'd think that exactly because it's such a common pattern, there would be best practices how to help those communities overcome. Yet, the only pattern I see is mainstream politics ignoring it, locals struggling, and rightwing winning them over. It's so obvious that you really have to ask yourself whether there's some hidden agenda somewhere in there. Just like mainstream politics ignoring the younger generations - both as plans for them and as ways to communicate with them - and again who's winning? The rightwing. It's everything in the open.
- tonyedgecombe 2y agoThere have been projects that pour money into some of these places but it doesn't seem to make much difference. Modern economies seem to prefer cities.