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Turning a Quarter of Detroit into Farmland
To combat this problem, Detroit is going to shrink. The city will buy out property owners, many of whom are the only ones left on their blocks, and relocate them to denser parts of the city (presumably closer to the city center). Then, these houses will be leveled and people are talking about turning the land over to agriculture, sort of a semi-rural farm belt around downtown Detroit.
There are definitely pros and cons to this idea, as outlined in this article. What are your thoughts?
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Comment by David Perner on March 10, 2010 at 7:41am
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I'm not saying every city should do this, or that it should be done on a national level, just that Detroit is overburdened with infrastructure it can't support and needs to do something so that it can invest in civic improvement and not just pay to keep things working that no longer serve any purpose.
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Comment by Nick Heyming on March 10, 2010 at 7:59am
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Wow, radical ideas guys. I think Detroit needs SOMETHING, why not urban farming and Mega-Met? The question is, how do you make something like this happen, especially without disenfranchising the poor people whose homes you'll literally have to bulldoze to execute these plans...
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Unfortunately I think Detroit is caught choosing the lesser of two evils. Either they restructure the city, and be forced to choose which areas to save and which to bulldoze, or get eaten up by infrastructure costs and potentially lower standards of living for everyone. I can't say I envy them :-\
Although if there is a silver lining, it's that wherever there's a problem like this, there's also great opportunity. I'm very interested in what comes of this, good or bad.
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