After spending 2 hours driving around the city of Detroit today, past thousands of empty homes, the discussion of increasing density in Detroit seems rather delusional. You can build all the parking garages and light rails you want downtown, but unless you have a somewhat dense surrounding residential area, that downtown area will not sustain itself.

If someone can convince the remaining Detroiters and their leaders to clean up their neighborhoods and reduce their criminal activity, it might have a fighting chance, but otherwise, I'm not very optimistic.