  Toriani Member Username: Toriani Post Number: 6 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 69.242.213.65 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared /spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/ame ricas_detroit_pins_hopes_on_su per_bowl/html/1.stm | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 821 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 198.208.159.18 |
hahah, #3 was shot right next to the house my girlfriend just moved out of. neat! | ||
Bunny Member Username: Bunny Post Number: 15 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 69.215.202.130 |
Nice house, gravitymachine. | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 822 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 198.208.159.18 |
its not my house, it is nice though (note that is not the one in the foreground, you can only see the wrought iron fence of the house I am speaking of) | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 102 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.88.89.94 |
Two questions: Where is this stretch of the Chrysler?  And from this quote on the BBC web page: "The 1960s saw another economic boom - another war economy in the Vietnam war. The auto industry boomed, but the Big Three - General Motors (GM), Ford and Chrysler - invested the profits elsewhere." Did the Big Three invest their profits overseas in Europe or in another section of the US? Did they just pocket it? | ||
Gogo Member Username: Gogo Post Number: 1190 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 198.208.251.23 |
I don't disagree that there is blight in Detroit, however I find it lazy that people would choose to use photos of Brush Park. Even in the photo they chose, you can see the new infrastructure improvements new condos and renovated lofts are just behind this house. If you are going to set an example of Detroits blight problem, Brush Park seems to be one area that it is being addressed really well. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2014 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 130.132.177.245 |
good quote and spot on as the BBC would put it ... | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 5523 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22 |
We have our winner for the new city slogan to put on the back of the FSC varsity jackets...Itsjeff, are you paying attention?! | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 5524 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22 |
And they used the term 'uprising' to describe the 60s civil unrest...gotta love them Brits, they always recognize a good revolution when they see it. | ||
The_nerd Member Username: The_nerd Post Number: 294 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 192.5.109.49 |
The picture someone posted above is the terminus of I-375 on Jefferson downtown. Many of the buildings on the right have been torn down, but generally the mid-right (across Jefferson) would be EDS and on the bottom left you can see Dumouchelle art gallery. (Message edited by The Nerd on February 03, 2006) | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 103 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.88.89.94 |
Ok, so the picture really focuses on the expansion of Jefferson and only catches the end of 375. Thanks for clearing that up. | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 2598 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 70.236.171.55 |
Aside from the MANY, MANY SBXL shops. For most of the almost 20 years I've lived in the general Downtown area, I've pleaded for retail. I want and deserve places to buy towels, sheets, underwear, etc. I have argued long and hard there is and has been a demographic attractive to retailers within a 3-5 mile radius of the CBD chomping at the bit to spend our readily available cash at local retailers. | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 6654 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.159.20 |
Who would have thought that Jams wore underwear? | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2016 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 130.132.177.245 |
Gannon, re revolutions, what the US makes the world takes ... | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 957 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 136.2.1.103 |
I think they're referring to the Big 3 building factories outside of the city, whether in the suburbs, or in other areas of the country, or outside the country. Which was a generally reasonable strategy, given that newer factories took up way too much space to all be crammed in an urban area like they were in the 20's.
Some of these doom and gloom quotes are overstated, and make things seem more hopeless than they really are to the casual reader, at least when you're talking about the City of Detroit. For example, out of the 30,000 jobs Ford is cutting, how many of those people live in the city of Detroit? Probably about 50. (Most of those being white collar workers who work in Dearborn.) The vast majority of the auto industry wealth is already outside of the City of Detroit, so these jobs hits on the auto industry (especially blue collar) will have relatively small impact on the city at this point. Which is not to say that there is no impact on the city, but the impact on the region is more significant, and also on communities scattered across the country where factories are located. Basically, if the Big 3 still had 90% US market share today, the population of Detroit would still not be much more than 900,000 now, due to many other issues. At this point, fixing Detroit's social problems and image is IMO much more important than hoping (in vain) that the Big 3 will regain market dominance. | ||
Cynknight Member Username: Cynknight Post Number: 59 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.209.159.57 |
Detroit is still the 11th largest city in the entire country. Sigh. |
