Originally Posted by
professorscott
By the way, lest anyone think I'm painting a rosy picture here, I'm not; I'm just pointing out it's not as bad as the title of this thread suggests.
But Detroit continues its inexorable slide toward irrelevance. In the first eight years of this decade, "new urbanism" has taken hold, and 21 of the top 25 US cities gained in population from 2000 to 2008. Detroit was second worst, in terms of population loss, losing 4.1% of its population in that time. Only Philadelphia, losing 4.6%, was worse.
What is worse, nobody seems to even be discussing any ideas to make the City livable, to make people want to move back in. Not only are we drifting toward the iceberg; we've stopped even trying to steer the ship.
I mean, tell me: have you heard from Dave Bing, or Tom Barrow, or Robert Bobb, or Jennifer Granholm or Jesus Christ, even one single solitary idea - not even a plan to implement it, just an idea - that is designed to make people want to move into Detroit? Because stanching the bleeding is not enough [[not that we've even accomplished that); we have to rebuild, which requires that people move in.