The bad and the good...

So let's start with the good:
http://www.freep.com/article/2010081...bzxQ/gwDdGw%3D

People seem quick to forget how dense Detroit really is, given the "suburban style"[[I do not agree with this term) layout of many Detroit neighborhoods. Some of those neighborhoods are actually the densest on this map, including mine. Props to SW Solutions, too. At least somebody has been paying attention. Lord knows it hasn't been the administrations.

http://www.freep.com/article/2010081...nsform-Detroit

This strikes me as moronic. I know it is uncharitable to say, since this road to hell is paved with the best intentions, but I'm SO sick of these PR campaigns. This is going to be another "Say nice things about Detroit" with the puppy with the gun to his head. How about, "It's a great time in Detroit?" - whatever happened to that one? This Curtis also rubs me the wrong way - "She calls herself a Detroiter because she spends a lot of time in the city and identifies with it." oh, really, is that all it takes? I spend a lot of time in Canada and identify with them to some extent, but that doesn't make me a fucking Canadian. I spend a lot of time in my garage but that doesn't make me a car. Want to really do something, lady? Buy a house and then you don't have to pretend to be from Detroit anymore.


I think these articles provide a good contrast - these demographic mappers and organizations like SW Solutions who have been working quietly behind the scenes for years to plan for the city's future and keep it afloat in the present - verses high-profile goofballs who come in with much bravado but it never amounts to much.