Quote Originally Posted by Satiricalivory View Post
What kind of idiotic take. A region of 6 million people isn't a metropolis? Somehow a town? We should have a small town mindset yeah I'm sure that'll work out great for us. How brain-dead. Gilbert's whole mentality has been the opposite of that.
Detroit had and still have under 800,000 during the time he had visited this city. He wasn't referring to a small town such as Mayberry. He was saying that Detroit shouldn't be forced into making it what is not. In other words stop trying to make Detroit like a New York City. New York had to build upward due to lack of land and space. Detroit doesn't have that problem. I am not knocking what Gilbert had done for Detroit. He had given the downtown area the shot in the arm that it needed. However, another focus should be the neighborhoods which in the past a working town such as Detroit boast of having