Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking

msnbc ^ | 3-8-10 | Associated Press

[cajuncow]

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.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Well, after all “Our Diversity Is Our Strength!”

[kempster]

This is really quite funny when you think about it. Sort of a full circle thing from the days of Cadillac and the other early Detroit settlers. Have they the discipline down there to allow this to happen? Not so much! We, in the suburbs will watch their feeble attempts to lure us back to their urban blight.