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Cities rarely collapse overnight. Decline usually arrives as a slow series of choices that seem reasonable at the time: a tax break here, a highway there, a risky shortcut on water or zoning. Across the United States, some once confident cities helped write their own troubles through decisions that magnified outside shocks instead of softening them. The result is a landscape of hollowed downtowns, poisoned pipes, flooded neighborhoods, and overheated suburbs that now serve as…..