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A city defined (Detroit can be saved by Smart Growth)
Boston Globe ^ | 2/12/2011 | Renée Loth

Posted on 02/11/2011 9:28:43 PM PST by wheresmyusa

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To: wheresmyusa

Smart Growth is ... NEITHER!!


61 posted on 02/11/2011 10:58:44 PM PST by gwilhelm56 (Egypt 2011 = Iran 1979)
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To: gwilhelm56

Smart Growth? No way, try a SMART BOMB! Couple of megatons should do it!


62 posted on 02/11/2011 11:02:04 PM PST by outhousepatrol
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To: Feasor13
I saw the Beatles at something like age 9 in Detroit in a beautiful old theater....wish I could remember the name of it.

Also in Wa these days...

63 posted on 02/11/2011 11:03:37 PM PST by MarMema
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To: Noob1999

I went to the link that Lazlo posted. They showed photos of the Studebaker factory. They closed it in 1956 and the buildings now are 55 years since they were maintained. It is all crumbling.

Some youngsters had videos on youtube of office buildings downtown. They walked through office and one was a stock brokerage. It looks like one day in the early 1970s - they people never came back.

Just about everything was left in the office building. It looks like the photos or Chernobyl or something. It is like the plague of liberalism swept through and people ran for their lives (w**te flight) and abandoned the place on one day. .


64 posted on 02/11/2011 11:05:57 PM PST by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: Frantzie
It really does. The schools and churches, too. Stuff still on the shelves...

Last year or so I ran across a site that had pics of houses that were so overgrown they were like artwork. I am going to see if I can find it...

65 posted on 02/11/2011 11:08:33 PM PST by MarMema
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To: wheresmyusa

“It was a goosebump moment for sure.”

Liberals want you to have a goosebump moment — they then think “we got them, they had a goosebump moment.” Just because you had a goosebump moment doesn’t mean you’ve lost your mind. But the liberals have lost their minds and you have to set them straight, “It’s because of foolishness like this that Detroit is a sh*t hole. You guys killed the goose that laid the golden egg and all you can do is think of goosebumps! Give your heads a shake.”


66 posted on 02/11/2011 11:11:00 PM PST by Blind Eye Jones
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To: MarMema
amazing overgrown houses in Detroit

You just can't say the city didn't have great houses. I loved them. And every one was different from the next, which is hard to find these days.

67 posted on 02/11/2011 11:11:12 PM PST by MarMema
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To: MarMema
Bah.

amazing overgrown houses in detroit

68 posted on 02/11/2011 11:14:16 PM PST by MarMema
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69 posted on 02/11/2011 11:16:18 PM PST by MarMema
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To: MarMema
more feral houses in Detroit
70 posted on 02/11/2011 11:17:07 PM PST by MarMema
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To: MarMema
Sums the town up. Doesn't it.


71 posted on 02/11/2011 11:21:21 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: wheresmyusa

What a ****** waste.


72 posted on 02/11/2011 11:23:34 PM PST by Del Rapier
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To: Feasor13
The riots in 67 and Coleman Young being elected mayor were the death knell for Detroit.

This photo of Coleman Young speaks volumes. Be sure to note the sign being held up behind him:


73 posted on 02/11/2011 11:31:14 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: Noob1999

And don’t forget the birthplace of Motown. Some great music.


74 posted on 02/12/2011 12:31:37 AM PST by MarMema
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75 posted on 02/12/2011 12:34:36 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: re_nortex

And that’s from 1981! Detroit was already a cesspool then.


76 posted on 02/12/2011 12:38:38 AM PST by MarMema
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To: martin_fierro

You betcha they voted for him - probably 100% there.


77 posted on 02/12/2011 12:39:33 AM PST by MarMema
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To: Lazlo in PA

Some of those houses are awesome. So sad to see them rotting like that.


78 posted on 02/12/2011 12:40:41 AM PST by MarMema
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To: endthematrix

Bingo.


79 posted on 02/12/2011 12:51:38 AM PST by GATOR NAVY ("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
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To: CurlyDave

I believes it. Why any foob switch from Johnny Sunshine to Whipcracker? That’ll git ya kilt! Word brother!


80 posted on 02/12/2011 1:06:20 AM PST by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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