Monday, November 09, 2009

vast urban prairie

Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier. Interesting article (especially photos) on how Detroit is turning into a vast urban prairie with enough cheap open land, unemployed labor pool, & need for food to support farming. The city is so large - 139 sq miles, so poor, & so unmanageable that there's no hope of revitalizing it, much less trying to govern it, conventionally. Too much space to fill. It's become a canvas for visionaries, artists, innovative house renovators, & a few crackpots.

The Amish ought to consider migrating there, as Lancaster PA farm property values soar with encroaching development.

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