Suburban Detroit Is Not Viewed As The Problem
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Originally Posted by
fryar
Yeah, but Detroit, as a city, didn't keep up with the times and adjust to the shrinkage. It can totally be a dense city of 500k-1M surrounded by some farmland.
If Detroit drops the parts of itself that are "crappy suburbs", and shrinks down to the city parts and keeps the more viable neighborhoods, it totally works out. There's little reason for someone to move to the "crappy suburbs" parts when they can just go live in an actual suburb, but if you're looking for city living in metro Detroit, your options outside of Detroit are pretty limited.
Just so we are all on the same page, the areas out side of the Grand Boulevard Loop in many parts, saw the least amount of population lose, and in some cases saw growth from 1950 to 2005, as illustrated below.
The "suburban" areas of the City of Detroit are not viewed a s a problem by many, are what we some are talking about abandoning in parts, or are what [[I have to assume) people are talking about turning into large commercial scale farms.
It is the central city, the area within or adjacent to the Grand Boulevard Loop that are the center of attention, and the target of many of the programs and bizarre ideas we have been hearing about. The neighborhood stabilization and demolition plans on the other hand, are in large part, targeting areas outside of Downtown and the Grand Boulevard Loop, as shown below.