Comments on: Detroit and the Limits to Urban Decline

By: A Backpack and a Keyboard

A Backpack and a Keyboard — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:40:39 +0000

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By: >National Poverty News Roundup for 24 March | Bread for the City

>National Poverty News Roundup for 24 March | Bread for the City — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:01:49 +0000

[...] we see the complete re-making of declining cities like Detroit to resemble a concept like “Farmadelphia,” with food grown in abandoned lots in the inner city itself? Economic distress remains [...]

By: S.B.

S.B. — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:36:48 +0000

For those who may be interested in going to this Friday’s May Day
party and Benefit Concert for the 2010 US Social Forum (which as you
know will be held in Detroit, Michigan):

Details of the benefit concert event (and directions to the location
of the event), including a zoomable google map of the location,
are now available at:

http://www3.arts.umich.edu/lounge/viewtopic.php?p=1220

By: Rob Goodspeed

Rob Goodspeed — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:46:53 +0000

See also, TIME, Detroit's Road to Renewal

By: Richard Layman

Richard Layman — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:08:58 +0000

Detroit is mostly proof of the need for urban growth boundaries. Detroit lost 1.2 million residents. All those residents did was relocate within other parts of the region, to Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. (From 1960 to 2000 these three counties only added 200,000 in population.) What happened is that Detroit’s housing was made redundant by the construction of new houses in the suburbs.

Given the centrality of the automobile to the region, it should be no surprise that the region has the most significant amount of outmigration from the core and exurban development.

By: Jeremiah Grymstone

Jeremiah Grymstone — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:58:28 +0000

I suppose it has become the nature of things to wax and wane. All major metro area will fade over time. It is our job to keep them from fading to the extend that they become useless. To keep “box stores” from becoming the homes of squatters and to demolish and recycle old home or restore them. There is no need for places to become dead space in the middle of cities.