City governments do not create safe stable neighborhoods.

The people in the Neighborhoods do.

Cities merely milk the neighborhoods to provide for city workers, planners etc.

Cities do provide some protection in exchange for what they extort.

But to think government planners and do-gooders can create stable neighborhoods is outrageous.

The people who invest in the neighborhoods do.

The planners are merely dead weight. Look at the bang up job they did with urban renewal. To even take what a planner has to say seriously is simply asking for more urban renewal disasters.

Want to improve Detroit? Dump the planners in the river, allow people to invest and build on their property as they see fit. Freedom is the key. Not planners and their [[not the actual property owners) vision.