demise of detroit?

its like deja vu

Love the scrap metal hunters chucking the stove out of the 10th floor window! Great find synchro!

man, I am so surprised that they used michigan central station (closed in 1988 ) as their first example. that is very original.

http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n8/htdocs/something-something-something-detroit-994.php

In all actuality though, I thought that was a pretty interesting documentary.

and the rich get richer….love it

man, I am so surprised that they used michigan central station (closed in 1988 ) as their first example. that is very original.

http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n8/htdocs/something-something-something-detroit-994.php

In all actuality though, I thought that was a pretty interesting documentary.

yeah, if you get it it's not so much about the demise of detroit but the beginning of potentially a new way of urban life.

Coming over the ambassador bridge you definitely get a bit of a strange feeling of desertedness. Detroit is definitely in a unique situation to reinvent itself right now.

Some signs of life for Detroit:
The area right downtown by comerica park, the fox theatre and ford field is pretty nice, hopefully that part can continue being reinvented in a more compact fashion, similar to how pittsburgh was reborn after the steel industry collapsed.

As stated in the documentary, the potential for urban agriculture is great with all the vacant lots. If the people can get behind it, it could work really well.

It is also strangely getting to be a good place for using a bike as transportation with so many wide and relatively empty streets. As with the farming, if more people get behind it and get the city to put in more bicycling infrastructure, it could become an urban biking hotbed.

It is somewhat of an art hotbed because musicians and other artists are heading there because it is such a cheap place to live. If you can do your work anywhere, why not live somewhere cheap? Hopefully this artistic people will also get behind the whole urban agriculture and biking movements as well.

There are a lot of unemployed engineers and other smart people there, and a lot of unused manufacturing facilities. Some industrious people are trying to use this infrastructure as a platform to launch alternative energy companies. I say they should use the plants to build some fancy european style trains for transport around the U.S.

There are starting to be more movies filmed in SE Michigan because the Michigan Gov't is offering similar incentives as BC did to get people filming in Vancouver instead of just NY and LA.

The lions will always suck though.

yeah but who are you kidding this is detroit you're talking about

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looks like you've done a little reading/exloring on the topic. i'm interested enough because of the downfall to do some as well. that's where i think this whole thing is actually a positive because the rapid decline in some parts of the city has made it possible for the invention of something new.

trouble - the article you posted is a very interesting counterpoint. What a fascinating documentary though mark

From the title, I thought this was about the Red Wings.

I blame GM selling Hummer to the Chinese.

I blame GM selling Hummer to the Chinese.

I blame the Stonecutters.

From the title, I thought this was about the Red Wings.

_Posted via Mobile Device_I thought was about them missing geoffg as a fan

Detroit files for bankruptcy protection
City losing residents as tax base shrinks
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/07/18/detroit-bankruptcy.html