Having commuted to Detriot from the east coast for a few years, Detroit is truly an amazing city.
Henry Ford built the Rouge plant, a totally self sufficient auto manufacturing plant. Barges would offload coke and the steel mills created metal; the glass shop made auto glass; the rubber entered the tire department; the spoked wheels were shaped in the wood shop.
Every part, of every automobile, was produced within the confines of the absolutely huge Rouge plant. Model T’s rumbled out of this plant at thousands per day - all hand built, all components produced on site.
To produce so much output Ford needed labor, and they increasingly brought in under-employed blacks from the South, then brought in arabs to supplement his workforce.
The city center is amazing: unbelievable concert halls, beautiful theatres, huge opulent hotels, wide boulevards - mostly built in the 20’s/thirties, some later. The population that remains, lives on the circular ring roads to Detriot: Two mile, three mile; five mile; eight mile,etc, mostly 50/60’s type housing.
Today, all this downtown wealth lies in a pit of sh!t. Unwalkable downtown, poverty abounds all within 1/2 a block of GM headquarters.
If the US were to want to test the effects of an urban nuclear bomb, downtown Detriot is the place to drop it. Yet, it might not be a fair test, since all the bricks, mortar, and concrete that is the hellhole called Detriot is already at least seventy years old.
Incredible city!
When you leave, DON'T LOOK BACK!
Smart Growth is ... NEITHER!!
“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.”
What a ****** waste.
No one has mentioned busing folks in....look what that did for education!!!
Think Troy or some of the ruins of say Carthage or Persepolis.....Detroit is on the way there
Detroit broke itself. Detroit needs to fix itself.
Typical idiotic advice from a liberal. To sum up this moron’s analysis: when you have dug yourself a deep pit, keep on digging. All the biggest and best progressive ideas for Detroit and other cities like it won’t make a dent in the picture until the attitude of the people who live in those cities changes.
“Smart growth” huh? Detroit is dead. It would be like going into a morgue and trying to use “smart growth” with a cadaver.
Detroit cannot be saved.