Retooling Our Cities

摘要

DESPITE WHAT SOME PEOPLE SAY about "the end of humanity," there will be people in the future. Those people will congregate and build shelters and make laws and decisions. But the way they do these things will be different. I grew up in Guilford County, North Carolina, home of Greensboro and High Point, where I saw firsthand what it's like to have to rebuild. In the late 1990s, the textile and furniture companies that made it possible to go right from high school into a factory job moved overseas. But in the wake of the crash, other businesses emerged, from small-scale manufacturers to "slow fashion" operations.