Detroit looks at bulldozing to save city

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DETROIT * Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.

Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.

Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. Suburban commuters heading into the city center might pass through what looks like the countryside to get there. Surviving neighborhoods in the birthplace of the auto industry would become pockets in expanses of green.

For much of the 20th century, Detroit was an industrial powerhouse, the city that put the nation on wheels. Factory workers lived in neighborhoods of simple single- and two-story homes and walked to work. But then the plants began to close one by one. The riots of 1967 accelerated an exodus of whites to the suburbs, and many middle-class blacks followed.

Now, a city of nearly 2 million in the 1950s has declined to less than half that number. On some blocks, only one or two occupied houses remain, surrounded by trash-strewn lots and vacant, burned-out homes. Scavengers have stripped anything of value from empty buildings. According to one recent estimate, Detroit has 33,500 empty houses and 91,000 vacant residential lots.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/09/detroit-looks-at-downsizing-to-save-city/


A perfect example of whats happens when liberals are in charge.
 
This is what happens when conservatives outsource millions of America workers.

All conservatives need to be gassed for their crimes against humanity. Everyone who has voted Republican in the last 100 years is part of the problem, and sadly, needs to be eliminated for the survival of America.
 
The fact is that Detroit was controlled for decades by the Democrat Party and unions. Ford moved to Dearborn to get out of there a long time ago. Thousands of other manufactures moved South to "right to work" states. GM stayed and failed along with Detroit. Now both are looking at the Feds to get bailed out. :palm:
 
The fact is that Detroit was controlled for decades by the Democrat Party and unions. Ford moved to Dearborn to get out of there a long time ago. Thousands of other manufactures moved South to "right to work" states. GM stayed and failed along with Detroit. Now both are looking at the Feds to get bailed out. :palm:

lol....if you're from Michigan you don't distinguish between Detroit and Dearborn.....you're still in Wayne County....
 
here's a thought.....Detroit should create special agricultural zones dedicated to growing medicinal marijuana......they could use prison inmates as agricultural workers (skilled workforce).......take 50% of the profits in exchange for providing protection from overzealous federal investigators......
 
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