An interesting perspective from an East Detroiter, MD, astronaut

[Hypestyles]

parts of it are intriguing.. though I disagree with the part about "minimizing regulation".. Though I do agree that turning big sections of land back to nature is a good idea.. no reason why Detroit can't have more contiguous, dense, thriving neighborhoods surrounded by well-kept forest lands and farmlands.. trying to automatically get back to 2,000,000 people is a Herculean crapshoot, and most people know it, but have problems openly saying it..

[rjk]

No offense to this guy, but people not nearly as smart as him have been basically been suggesting the same thing for many years. Coming up with an idea is the easy part, we can all do that. It's implementing the plan and dealing with all the hurdles that is the difficult part.

It's just like the outstate urban planners who came to Detroit a few years ago and said the city needs to have the nighborhoods consolidated and the less populated areas need to be turned into green spaces. Thanks a lot, now if they could just find a way to come up with the money, a way to persuade people to move among many other problems involved with trying to shrink a city we'll be all set.

The devil is in the details is right.

[DinNC]

Well said rjk. I would love to get details on how Mayor Bing plans on exacuting his Detroit works plan. I think it's a great Idea to make parts of the city more dense and leave others for nature. Although, I don't agree on leasing the land to logging companies. Natural wooded area with parks mixed in would be great. Build all around them but don't touch them. We'll just have to wait and see the the mayor has to say.