With the Loveland "inchvestor" program and Corktown's new Imagination Station, Jerry Pafferndorf is no stranger to kooky ideas or good press. This three-page profile on Xconomy.com examines how the digital maps from Loveland could be seriously significant to the city's controversial land-shrinking program.
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What Detroit really needs, Paffendorf says, is fine-grained "digital social map" that could aid in Mayor Dave Bing's program to "resize" the city. By some accounts, two thirds of the land in Detroit is unoccupied, which means services such as police and fire protection and water and sewer maintenance are stretched needlessly over a vast area.
The problem, says Paffendorf, is that "they're drawing up a master plan for how to intelligently deal with this Swiss-cheese environment, and they're trying to do it with no maps."
Can Paffendorf and his Loveland team map out a future plan to reimagine Detroit? Ponder that thought
here.
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