Detroit's space and vacancies afford the city an ability to transform itself into a city of hope and sustainability.
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“I see it as the quiet revolution,” she said. “It is a revolution for self-determination taking place quietly in Detroit.”
This quiet revolution has been preparing Detroiters to meet today’s growing crises of global warming and spiraling food prices.
As writer Rebecca Solnit said in the July 2007 issue of Harper’s,
“Detroit is where change is most urgent and therefore most viable. The
rest of us will get there later, when necessity drives us too, and by
that time Detroit may be the shining example we can look to—the
post-industrial green city that was once the steel-gray capital of
Fordist manufacturing.”
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