WDIV did a story on the Woodward Project, an initiative to promote the Woodward corridor between Downtown and Birmingham as our urban core.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/26071878/index.html
On another post Lowell made the point that the suburbs are really just another part of the city -- that is, that the arbitrary political boundaries that divide us are just that: arbitrary.
This is exactly the point of the Woodward Project. If you ignore these arbitrary boundaries and instead focus on real walkable neighborhoods along Woodward, you see that we in fact have the makings of a great American city.
We need to think holistically about our region, developing places like Ferndale and Royal Oak in concert with the core of the traditional city. When we stop thinking of these places as competing in a zero sum game, we start the process of building an internationally competitive urban environment, albeit one that is half in Oakland County and half in the city of Detroit.
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