  Boogiechillen Member Username: Boogiechillen Post Number: 12 Registered: 09-2008 |
A little doom and gloomy, but at least it's well informed, especially for an outsider perspective. The author obiously did not read Kurt Guyette's critique of LeDuff's article. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2b81 5a94-0863-11de-8a33-0000779fd2 ac.html | ||
Wirt Member Username: Wirt Post Number: 86 Registered: 12-2005 |
I thought the article was a very good depiction of what is happening now. | ||
Wirt Member Username: Wirt Post Number: 87 Registered: 12-2005 |
I did notice that he was off by a couple decades on the Renaissance Center though.... | ||
Ronaldj Member Username: Ronaldj Post Number: 114 Registered: 01-2007 |
Financial Times: as we all know, a well respected news outlet. Been reading it, on and off, for thirty years. Mr. Reed spent seven weeks in town. Was able to meet with some pretty informed folk who do not seem to have scales over their eyes. Have him involved in the Bowling Greem study when he gets back to these parts. | ||
Sparty06 Member Username: Sparty06 Post Number: 199 Registered: 03-2007 |
"Urban renewal is also an old trope in a city where the 1950s “Renaissance Center”, meant to be a symbol of a revived downtown, is full of empty offices. GM would like to sell the building as the company downsizes." GM is selling the Renaissance Center? I thought this was debunked in another thread. It definitely seems like something is going on that a number of independent sources have talked about this. | ||
Dcmorrison12 Member Username: Dcmorrison12 Post Number: 73 Registered: 02-2009 |
Judging that he got the Era wrong on the buildings construction date... maybe he got that wrong as well? Who knows | ||
Meta_one Member Username: Meta_one Post Number: 11 Registered: 06-2008 |
I like where he more or less concedes at the end that critics of corporate globalization were right all along and that local urban agriculture will help make a better future for Detroit. | ||
Sparty06 Member Username: Sparty06 Post Number: 200 Registered: 03-2007 |
Anyone else know anything about the RenCen? | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 378 Registered: 10-2003 |
Well, even if he never makes it back, at least he showed a sincere interest in Detroit's Urban Gardening. Also he was receptive to the idea of Detroit as "a canary in the coalmine" which brings much more to his piece than the other hit and run articles. |
