Using Disasters for Systemic Change

This article requires some deep thought, just posted as an FYI.

"If disasters are in fact ripe opportunities, and if one can suspect more of them to occur with, say, the impact of natural hazards or with terrorism, what if proposals for new built development planned for their own potential future destruction, and what if the policy requiring this also required the infrastructural systems in which the development is enmeshed to be drastically improved if a disaster destroyed or affected the development in the future?"