Sprawl-hating CEO’s new vid pins region’s hopes on Woodward corridor
What’s The Woodward Project video? We’d say it’s in the vein of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, with an ambient music soundtrack. A ten-minute manifesto on how the automobile helped bring Detroit to its knees, and how new urbanism, mass transit, and M-1 can help lift an entire region back to its feet. It may be depressing at times, but Andrew Basile, a local CEO and author of the infamous open letter on sprawl that went viral last month, is clearly mad as hell, and isn’t taking it anymore.
The opener doesn’t pull any punches:
A great American city is within our reach. Detroit was once a great city. It was destroyed by the disastrous mistakes of an older generation. Catastrophe is their legacy. It doesn’t have to be ours.
Click here to watch the video.
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