March 9, 2010

Down-size 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.

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  1. Josh Weichhand on March 9th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    And it comes full-circle. This seems a rather poetic development.

  2. Josh Weichhand on March 9th, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    The IRONY. People can buy land developments and turn them into farmland and orchards? I can’t get over how great this is.

  3. Deron Bauman on March 9th, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    crazy.

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