This is all due to the fact that the Detroit population has been steadily shrinking since the 1940\'s. The city is too huge to support such a small population of people. In fact, as some of you may have read, the Mayor (Dave Bing of NBA fame) has proposed something radical: allowing surrounding cities to anex major parts of Detroit. The jist is, that the city can\'t afford to offer services to such a broad distribution of it\'s citizens. I think this is an awesome idea. I know Detroit will come back but, it will not look the same. In adition to the WSJ article I linked too, there\'s a great article in The Economist too.
On the bright side, the decay and human tradgedy are gerat photo ops.
Oh, and BTW, Detroit is prolly >95% Black. The burbs are >805 White. I don\'t know how that will ever get resolved.
This is all due to the fact that the Detroit population has been steadily shrinking since the 1940\'s. The city is too huge to support such a small population of people. In fact, as some of you may have read, the Mayor (Dave Bing of NBA fame) has proposed something radical: allowing surrounding cities to anex major parts of Detroit. The jist is, that the city can\'t afford to offer services to such a broad distribution of it\'s citizens. I think this is an awesome idea. I know Detroit will come back but, it will not look the same. In adition to the WSJ article I linked too, there\'s a great article in The Economist too.
On the bright side, the decay and human tradgedy are gerat photo ops.
Oct 10, 2010 at 09:21 PM
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