The city’s proposal to spend more than half-a-billion dollars on blight removal creates a Marshall Plan-style vision that would change the face of Detroit and the fortunes of its residents in just a few years.
Ambitious? Undoubtedly. But without question it would reframe Detroit’s image in the eyes of fans and critics alike.

Just think: So-called “ruin porn” photographers, metal scrappers and other urban vultures would have far fewer structures to prey upon and could be put out of business. Moviemakers would no longer flock to Detroit to film scenes of RoboCop-like post-apocalyptic blight.


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