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Old Posted May 2, 2017, 7:28 PM
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I know what they're doing, but it isn't what I'm suggesting. You would need to move people in order to create large enough contiguous open spaces.

You don't get anything from having a few plots here and there turned over to urban farms, even if it adds up to a lot of land in total. But creating a bunch of 10 or 50 or 100 acre parks could actually provide a great legacy for the city's eventual revival.
Now that's a thought.

Why not create a suburban growth boundary of sorts. Let the suburbs continue to prosper by creating a new 'Emerald Necklace' around the CBD of Detroit. Let a new Frederick Law Olmstead work his/hers magic by hemming in urban Detroit with a greenbelt. The old slums turn into parkland for both urbanites of the CBD and suburbanites to recreate in.
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