A recent article in the
Detroit Free Press asked what to do with the vacant and abandoned areas of Detroit. It touched a nerve and readers chimed in with their two cents.
Excerpt:
A recent article focused on a very real Detroit issue: abandoned
industrial prairie ("Detroit: Land of opportunity; acres of barren
blocks offer chance to reinvent city," Dec. 15). Do we continue to
surround the core of the city with growing post-apocalyptic wasteland,
or do we come up with a plan to actually do something? The time is now
to seize the opportunity and demonstrate forward leadership to come up
with a simple but realistic plan that Detroit can sign up to.
My plan is simple. Detroit develops an urban planning/forestry
committee that re-maps the city into viable neighborhood zones and new
reforested zones. This committee then redraws the city into new,
connecting, viable neighborhood-zoned areas that function more
economically and cohesively for the city's population.
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