Crazy Eddie's Motie News: Shrinking Detroit

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N.Y. Times via Columbus Dispatch: Reversing Detroit
Fast-shrinking Motor City plans best way to manage population loss
Sunday, April 10, 2011 03:18 AM
By Monica Davey
New York Times News Service

Marja Winters, deputy director of Detroit’s planning and development department, speaks with community members at a church.DETROIT — When Marja M. Winters was studying urban planning in graduate school, she learned the art and science of helping cities grow.

Now, Winters, a native of Detroit and deputy director of the city’s planning and development department, finds herself in an unexpected role, one that no school would have thought to prepare her for: She is sorting out how to help her hometown shrink, by working through difficult decisions that will determine which neighborhoods can be saved and which cannot.

“It was always this notion that the population of the world continues to grow, and more and more people want to live in cities,” Winters, 33, said about her courses at the University of Michigan. “The reality is very different. Who knew?”

Read the rest at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.

Meta note: I know in my previous post that I would continue analyzing Contemplating the Hedgehog, but it's not every day that the New York Times covers exactly those aspects of Detroit that I cover in this blog. Better yet, it was picked up by the Columbus Dispatch, which doesn't have the 20 article limit before hitting a paywall that the New York Times has. Also, a friend of mine in Columbus posted the link on my Facebook wall. Who am I to refuse a good story when it's dumped in my lap?

In short, I'll get around to the series sooner rather than later. Unless LiveJournal completely disappears because of a DDoS attack (in Soviet Russia, LiveJournal trolls you!), it's not going anywhere.