Bob Morris Posted on Sat Mar 2, 2013 5:00 am.
To paraphrase the MC5, ‘The Motor City’s collapsing, people.’ Or, to put it another way, when the US economy catches a cold, Detroit gets pneumonia. Michigan will be appointing an emergency financial manager for Detroit, citing a financial emergency. Let’s not forget, Detroit gave us the greatest soul music ever, amazing high energy rock and [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:10 am.
Shloky thought America still had time to turn things around until he read Detroit, An American Autopsy by Charlie Leduff. Now he’s not sure. What if the land of the free, of prosperity, of two cars and a picket fence succumbed to the corrupt, the incompetent, the immoral? It presents the viewpoint that we’re not [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:45 am.
Glasgow2Detroit Trailer from Away Ye Grow on Vimeo. Don MacKeen, an Amercian expat in Glasgow mailed me about his documentary Detroit to Glasgow, which is about urban farming and creating new futures in post-industrial cities. Just came across your website tonight – your Saul Alinsky article – and thought you might be interested in a [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Jan 6, 2010 19:28 pm.
Fortune profiles John Hantz and his plan to buy large chunks of land in Detroit and convert it to urban agriculture.
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Jan 4, 2010 15:57 pm.
Hantz Farms plans to farm up to 5,000 acres in Detroit. Others are doing the same on a smaller scale too. Abandoned factories could be used for hydroponic growing “People look at these abandoned houses and think, ‘No one could live there. Let’s tear it down,’ ” said Score, a former business development consultant for [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:15 am.
In Detroit, shattered by the woes of the US car industry, there are already plans to split it into a collection of small urban centres separated from each other by countryside. Maybe they could have urban gardens and wind turbines in the countryside areas. Seriously. I recall that a Detroit city council member did in [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Fri Jun 12, 2009 23:03 pm.
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Bob Morris Posted on Sun Mar 8, 2009 11:18 am.
That’s how it always begins. Artists move into a decimated area, start fixing it up, and that brings more people. Then of course, ten years later they all have to move because the area has been gentrified and the rents are too high! In a way, a strange, new American dream can be found here, [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Mar 2, 2009 14:02 pm.
Sue discovered this last night on Google maps. Many areas of Detroit now have vacant land where buildings used to be. Unless the trend is reversed, people and business will continue to leave and the process will accelerate. I went to college in Michigan. I want Detroit to come back. It’s given us (at least [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Sun Mar 1, 2009 22:15 pm.
Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre. From their The Ruins of Detroit series The Chicago Trib details the dire condition of Detroit. Median house value in Detroit is now $7,500. The city’s bond rating has been downgraded to junk and it could go into receivership. It has no major grocery chain and only two movie theatres, [...]
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