Being from the Netherlands I grew up in a country with century old cities. Cities in which waterways were previously an major way of transport within citylimits. These days that function is lost and some of those canals suffered the fate of being filled in in favour of the automobile. Lots of canals now are major arteries into the citycenter.

A lot has survived though, as some of you might kno by visiting cities like Amsterdam, and now have a touristic function or are a very in demand place to live. In fact, some of those canals have been recreated just for that.


Believe me, 10 years ago this did not excist!

The middle square. Everything here is new.


Would something like this be successful in Detroit?