Airport City, Part I: Concept could revive regional economy

According to the story:

Wayne County development director Mulu Birru’s “Airport City” vision, he tells the Michigan Land Use Institute, is to build neighborhoods that would bring talented people and innovative businesses to the region and to add mass transit.

He’s received help desiging Airport City from Douglas Kelbaugh, dean of the University of Michigan’s Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and his students.

The concept could help put Detroit back among America’s greatest cities and bring global markets within reach.
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