A century and a half ago, adventurers, dreamers and gamblers alike headed west to seek freedom and fortune. A new article in
YES! Magazine hails Detroit as the new American frontier for the modern-day visionary. Urban agriculture, cheap land, yes -- Detroit has these things, and more. But, author Aaron M. Renn notes, the city's relatively lax attitude avoids a pattern of interference, which often hampers development in stronger cities. And that's birthed a community of "self-determinants," working together to create something closer to utopia out of the ruins.
Excerpt:
Whether this trend really pumps life back into Detroit remains to be
seen. But it has done one essential thing: it has created an
aspirational narrative of success in Detroit that other Americans might
imagine themselves being a part of. If that starts to attract people in
sufficient numbers to reverse core city population decline, Detroit
could be at the start of the long road back.
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