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I like the broken window theory, but it seems a little late to apply it to Detroit, a city with tens of thousands of abandoned buildings.

Ummm....If you want a city without that has not been interfered with by planners or codes, take Houston - an ugly, dumpy, sprawled out mess of a city if there ever was one.

On the other hand, look...

I see on amazon that a book called "Detroit: A Biography" is coming out in April. That looks to be a broad-in-scope book on the city's history.

The only book I've read on Detroit is "the origins...

Great article. It sounds like there are a lot of people who want to make Detroit great again. Just gotta solve the crime problem...

Maybe Bashara didn't do it, but instead his girlfriend hired the hit. Based on the material from the hinky website, Bashara was planning on moving in with his girlfriend bu seemingly didn't have the...

There's a good story about the store and it's owner here: http://metrotimes.com/culture/holes-in-the-wall-1.1249769

The owner's situation is really sad. He moved to Detroit from Romania 30 years...

How am I trolling? I'm curious about what Detroit's really like given all the negative press it tends to get. I had an honest question one aspect of the city and asked it. Nothing more than that.

Exactly. If the whole of greektown is turned into parking lots, it won't be any different than any other empty urban space and people will stop wanting to go there. The you'll end up with empty...

Yeah, no kidding. A casino does nothing to help a neighborhood if people go straight from their car to the casino. If people walked outside maybe they'd patronize another business or two. Allowing...

Ok, so it seems like instead of giving informative answers about where the hip folk live and play in Detroit, DYesers have ended up squabbling amongst themselves. I've done some of my own research...

SInister? Ok, that's a little ridiculous. It's fun to poke fun at hipsters, but for me there is a fair amount of self-loathing in that since I used to dress just like a lot of them when I was in...

If you want a [[hilarious) take on what constitutes being a hipster, I highly recommend watching the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_5uVdy5YmA

The video is about London...

Being a hipster is all about not conforming, but in exactly the same way :) skinny jeans and ironic facial hair are two common elements if that. I even see handle bar mustaches but I'm not sure...

I'm not knocking anyone or Detroit for that matter. I live in the most hipster neighborhood in San Francisco. It's so uber-hipster here that we all make fun of it somewhat, but at the same time...

Ha! That's a good one. Why don't homely folks like that get a label?

Interesting proposal. Detroit needs more people like the OP.

And yes, the private park concept is not uncommon in London. I used to live in the earls court / south kensington area and there were...

Maybe they should rename the area GreektownCasinotown?

Why tear down buildings to provide more parking? Aren't there enough parking lots already???

Also, I've noticed that the type of soulless changes described here is what often passes for progress...

I keep reading references to there being hipsters in Detroit. Where do they tend to hang out? Are there many? What attracts them and their skinny jeans and ironic facial hair to Detroit?

If you want to watch a great, intelligent documentary about the roots of detroit's problems, check out Deforce. I can't recommend it highly enough

Will your produce stand have bullet-proof glass?

All joking aside, as for what you can expect in Detroit, I would refer you to a thread where a Swedish guy was asking for advice on moving to...

All things considered, wasn't crime a lot worse in the 80's and 90's? I've come across a lot of references to those years being the worst as far as crime in Detroit, due in large part to the crack...

How are council members currently elected? By an "at large" system?

Is there a website that has a collection of all of these ghost signs? I would imagine they'd be destroyed by graffitti artists or further demolitions, so it would at least be nice if they were...

From the perspective of a non-Detroiter/non-Michigan resident, this is astonishing. I've lived in medium to major-sized cities my entire life and can only think of one or two friends of mine who've...