Detroit as "Capital of the Experimental"
Urban visionary Tony Goldman tells Model D what he sees in the D: “I’ll tell you first what I wouldn’t do. I wouldn’t tear down a single building. I wouldn’t build a single new parking lot. I would use every piece of the city’s 140-square miles to create the country’s best urban parks system. I would create a thoughtful urban homesteading program and give properties away. Vacant land, farms, buildings, houses, everything. Fix up the properties, stick it out and own them after 10 years. It’ll take balls, perseverance and an almost stupid commitment to changing not only Detroit, but the course of urban America. It can start here, because nowhere else is in a better position to do it. This is our best chance to do it the right way.”
A journalist's musings and wanderings, trying to find mindfulness and depth in the shallows of social media.
