Urban areas that are abandoned because of the crisis and foreclosures are returned to farmland. These places have to be turned into self-sustaining communities, like the Transition Town movement that started in Totnes, England. Only this is transition cold turkey. This is not self-willed. No choices here. But it is the only way to survive and be ready for a new future. What to do? How to do it? Do we have these developments in Europe too?
