TOWNS? WHY NOT COUNTRIES?:

‘Eradicate loser towns,’ says professor: Leading planning expert proposes to do away with 500 of the country’s smallest towns and villages (The Copenhagen Post, 28 August 2009)

Professor Jørgen Møller wants to eradicate the country’s ‘loser towns’.

For a town to fall into the Aalborg University professor’s unflattering classification, it needs a dearth of empty houses, no local supermarket or grocer and no school.

‘The wise general plots a retreat tactic and draws a line,’ Møller said, suggesting the smartest thing was to shut down the ‘loser towns’.

‘If there aren’t enough children to populate the schools and the nursing homes are closing, then a complete closure ought to be considered.’

Looks like we got out out of Jutland when the getting was good...

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 9, 2009 1:48 PM