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Not to be the resident Detroit troll....

post #1 of 22
3/10/10 at 1:34pm
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....but I have to admit that this is just amazing to me.

City too big? Let's bulldoze the sucker...
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post #2 of 22
3/10/10 at 1:36pm
You're hurting Detroit's feelings, teledork.
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post #3 of 22
3/10/10 at 1:36pm
Paging Overlord....

ETA:
This is not a bad idea at all, actually. Why is continuing urban sprawl the norm? Why not bulldoze and replant? Mr. Mayor, tear down that city!
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post #4 of 22
3/10/10 at 1:48pm
I figure it would be cheaper for the city in the long run not having to maintain underused utility lines, water lines, roads.

Some other cities should consider this since the housing bust has left many cities with empty neighborhoods.
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post #5 of 22
3/10/10 at 1:49pm
Screw Overlord. Page Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass. Bring a camera.
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post #6 of 22
3/10/10 at 2:11pm
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Screw Overlord. Page Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass. Bring a camera.
This. There's an oscar for best doc just waiting to happen here.
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post #7 of 22
3/10/10 at 9:28pm
The all new and improved Detroit...



Put ya hands up!
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post #8 of 22
3/10/10 at 9:29pm
Seems like a good idea to me
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post #9 of 22
3/10/10 at 9:30pm
They should lease out the extra land they reclaim as landfill space. That way we could turn Detroit into the garbage capital of the US.
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post #10 of 22
3/10/10 at 10:46pm
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Originally Posted by teledork View Post
....but I have to admit that this is just amazing to me.

City too big? Let's bulldoze the sucker...
I'd heard this plan before. Interesting idea; right now Detroit is the most intriguing sociological natural experiment going.
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post #11 of 22
3/10/10 at 10:47pm
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
They should lease out the extra land they reclaim as landfill space. That way we could turn Detroit into the garbage capital of the US.
I don't understand why Detroit/Michigan pols aren't encouraging green r&d/startup firms into the city - heck, real estate values are squat, make it a capital of the NEW economy.
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post #12 of 22
3/11/10 at 1:12am
*insert obligatory "Robocop" reference here*
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post #13 of 22
3/11/10 at 1:31am
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I don't understand why Detroit/Michigan pols aren't encouraging green r&d/startup firms into the city - heck, real estate values are squat, make it a capital of the NEW economy.
While I can't speak to the breadth of efforts, this is something that is being pushed for. It has less to do with actual Detroit, though, and more to do with the state trying to get in on the ground floor of the industry of the future.
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post #14 of 22
3/11/10 at 2:44am
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While I can't speak to the breadth of efforts, this is something that is being pushed for. It has less to do with actual Detroit, though, and more to do with the state trying to get in on the ground floor of the industry of the future.
Milwaukee is trying to get in on the ground floor of the water industry.

Beats trying to see who can set the bar lowest for manufacturing jobs.
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post #15 of 22
3/11/10 at 10:55am
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Water industry? Ground floor?

further explanation needed, please...I'm slow this morning
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post #16 of 22
3/11/10 at 9:06pm
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Water industry? Ground floor?

further explanation needed, please...I'm slow this morning
Just letting you know I saw this, but can't go in-depth right now. Will get to it hopefully later this evening.
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post #17 of 22
3/11/10 at 9:31pm
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Just letting you know I saw this, but can't go in-depth right now. Will get to it hopefully later this evening.
Allow me.

I am sitting about six blocks away from a 22,300 square mile body of fresh water, the 5th largest on the planet. Historically, the governing bodies surrounding this lake (and the other Great Lakes) have saw fit to restrict drinking water access to those of us living in the Great Lakes Basin (which, in some areas, is a very narrow strip of land - the citizens of Waukesha, a city 20 miles west of here, do not have access to the water). There has, however, been an increasingly vocal movement agitating for allowing access to Great Lakes water outside of the Great Lakes Basin.

On the one hand, it does seem a little unreasonable to not supply people with water from a lake they're only 20 miles from. On the other, once that horse is out of the gate, where do you draw the line? And is it acceptable to turn a profit on it?

Sorry for the derail. I'll stop now. Personally, I think it would be a marvelous experiment in urban planning to raze the parts of Detroit that nature is slowly leveling. Of course, I don't live there, so it's an easy thing for me to say.
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post #18 of 22
3/11/10 at 9:58pm
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Originally Posted by MissZooey View Post

I am sitting about six blocks away from a 22,300 square mile body of fresh water, the 5th largest on the planet. Historically, the governing bodies surrounding this lake (and the other Great Lakes) have saw fit to restrict drinking water access to those of us living in the Great Lakes Basin (which, in some areas, is a very narrow strip of land - the citizens of Waukesha, a city 20 miles west of here, do not have access to the water). There has, however, been an increasingly vocal movement agitating for allowing access to Great Lakes water outside of the Great Lakes Basin.

On the one hand, it does seem a little unreasonable to not supply people with water from a lake they're only 20 miles from. On the other, once that horse is out of the gate, where do you draw the line? And is it acceptable to turn a profit on it?
Actually, I was speaking more of the efforts to establish Milwaukee as a "water technology hub" - much like a need for alternative energy sources (green or otherwise), there is going to be a coming demand for potable water.

It is less to export Great Lakes water and more attempting to find technological solutions to the growing need for clean drinking water.
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post #19 of 22
3/11/10 at 10:05pm
Right. I'll show myself out. I'm off to fill a half-dozen swimming pools on the Waukesha County line. And laugh and laugh and....
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post #20 of 22
3/17/10 at 1:45pm
Do you happen to go to school in Detroit? If so, maybe not for long! 44 schools closing, my goodness. It makes sense and is probably years overdue, but the numbers are shocking. Maybe they can grind up and turn the old principals, teachers and administrators into Soylent Green for their new in-town gardens?

http://www.wxyz.com/news/story/44-De...nQ.cspx?hpt=T2
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post #21 of 22
3/17/10 at 6:56pm
Cities have died through out history. Detroit is not even the first US city to have died, just the first to be dieing in our life time.
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post #22 of 22
3/18/10 at 12:12am
One can only hope that if they do in fact use that land for farming, that they then use it for decent produce, and not more land for horrid factory farms so's they can pump out cheap F-grade meat for the fatties.
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