Title: Snooze fest
Review: Written by an academic who needs to learn how to write for a popular audience. The topic for this book is fascinating. This author manages to make it boring and flat. This would be a nice book for a student of city planning, but it's dry and boring for someone who wants to know the story of a city's demise. There is little to no local "stories." Why didn't the author interview folks who moved out? Why did you leave? Why did you stay? What were people's lives like before the war and after? The author never looks at any of this.
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