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It Looks Like Detroit Is Coming Back

Article by Mike Lydon, M.U.P.'07, published on Courant.com
August 19, 2007
Two years ago I saw John Norquist, former mayor of Milwaukee and current president of the Congress for the New Urbanism, give a presentation on the state of America's cities. During the slide show, Norquist used two sets of images to effectively convey a point about urban disinvestment in America. The first set of images was of Berlin and Detroit circa 1945. Unsurprisingly, the Berlin image displayed a war-torn and rubble-strewn city, while the Detroit image revealed why it was once called the Paris of the Midwest—it was simply elegant. Read the article...

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