Why the Exurbs Are Poised to Take Off

[archfan]

A few key points... and they all center around the central idea of the new technology allows people to live where they want to.

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3) Outside the core urban area, save for a few "mini-downtownesque neighborhoods", the rest of the City of Detroit [[and other large cities as well) function as suburban neighborhoods. The problem is, they are non-desirable suburban neighborhoods.
The home in the suburban portion of the City of Detroit, and other inner ring suburbs, were [[mostly) built cheaply and close together. That combination means the homes don't age well, which means they become less desirable, which means bad schools follow, which means lower income residents move in, which means other problems follow [[mean as it is to say).

That's an interesting point: the outer portions of the Detroit are really more like the first inner ring of the suburbs. Warrendale and East English Village have a lot more in common with Redford and Harper Woods than they do with downtown. That thinking may shift how we approach revitalizing all of those areas.