Fresh ideas of redeveloping the City of Detroit NOT coming to REALITY

**Junkin4Life** · January-27-12, 07:27 AM

From 1999 to 2008, groups of students of University of Michigan have worked extremely hard to rendered out a master plan to redevelop the City of Detroit, especially the Downtown area, but nothing of it has launched for over 10 years now. I can understand it all has something to do with money issue. I personally admire their handy work. Hands down. Their ideas of redeveloping the city are the best they ever come up with.

Here is the link, just in case y'all didn't know

http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/charrette/past.html

**Dexlin** · January-27-12, 07:50 AM

Detroit already has a newish masterplan adopted in 2009. A university charrette is not something a government is obligated or should feel obligated to implement; a design charrette is mostly for the benefit of the learning program and its students that it's a part of.

The way you are protraying this is as if the city had made some kind of promise of formal agreement to use the charrette's plan, with the implication that Detroit doesn't have a new master plan. The fact is that Detroit had years of public hearings and comments, and came up with a professionally guided master plan. The charrette was university-initiated, not the other way around.

**Baselinepunk** · January-27-12, 10:33 AM

Using students is a great way to get some fresh ideas and some hard work done for free/little cost.

I've worked on a few school projects for Cities in the past. But it's just that, a school project, and unless the City in question has some sort of formal arrangement the City is not bound by anything.

We can certainly advocate the end product from students; but unfortunately what looks good to us on the outside may not be feasible due to many factors, like external/internal politics and turf wars.

**Hamtragedy** · January-27-12, 10:58 AM

"We can certainly advocate the end product from students; but unfortunately what looks good to us on the outside may not be feasible due to many factors, like external/internal politics and turf wars."

Or just the simple fact that leadership and management are so completely incompetent that very little ever gets started around this city, yet alone completed.

For decades now, the excitement that would be felt with any new project anywhere else, is greeted here with skepticism. It is shocking when that rare project comes to fruition.

**Baselinepunk** · January-27-12, 11:11 AM

"For decades now, the excitement that would be felt with any new project anywhere else, is greeted here with skepticism. It is shocking when that rare project comes to fruition."

Yes, I believe that's true to a point as well. There has been a lot of pain and divisiveness in this region for more than a few generations; the person who comes up with the solution for that should be King for life.

Coaccession · January-27-12, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by Baselinepunk

"For decades now, the excitement that would be felt with any new project anywhere else, is greeted here with skepticism. It is shocking when that rare project comes to fruition."

Yes, I believe that's true to a point as well. There has been a lot of pain and divisiveness in this region for more than a few generations; the person who comes up with the solution for that should be King for life.

Hear, hear!

**Junkin4Life** · January-28-12, 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by Dexlin

Detroit already has a newish masterplan adopted in 2009. A university charrette is not something a government is obligated or should feel obligated to implement; a design charrette is mostly for the benefit of the learning program and its students that it's a part of.

The way you are protraying this is as if the city had made some kind of promise of formal agreement to use the charrette's plan, with the implication that Detroit doesn't have a new master plan. The fact is that Detroit had years of public hearings and comments, and came up with a professionally guided master plan. The charrette was university-initiated, not the other way around.

i seem to clearly understand where you are coming at. Just imagine if those projects ever occur in unison. our city would bee booming like NYC or Newark, NJ Just imagine IF we had a lit-up giant faygo pop that changes color corresponding to different flavors, a lit-up giant
Better Made potato chip bag that changes color corresponding to different flavors, and a lit up hot dog sitting on top of a American Coney Island building towering over Campus Martius Park.