[nyx_land]

It's neat to see one of my personal holy grails of urban exploring being posted here and then see people talking about gentrifying an entire preserved town from the 80s to build some kind of weird techbro commune. Never change HN.

[notatoad]

I get the disdain for gentrification when it displaces existing communities.

I have a harder time seeing the harm in finding a productive use for a city that currently doesn’t have a productive use. It’s cool that this place exists, and is a bit of a time capsule. But it’s not that noteworthy or valuable beyond being a mild curiosity, and certainly not worth preserving if it can be used for actual benefit instead.

I always thought part of the appeal of urban exploration and abandoned sites was the knowledge that abandoned places get redeveloped, and the fun is in exploring it before it gets turned into something new and shiny. Artificially preserving a place that could have another use takes it from “urban exploration” to visiting a museum, which is much less cool

[prawn]

Also, little surprise that people would outline that tack in a community about finding ideas and solutions.