The Google Maps Street Views below look like typical small-town scenery, with a lot of open space and far from the hustle and bustle of urban America. But they’re not quite as rural as you’d think. Each of the intersections above are only a short bike ride from downtown Detroit. In fact, much of the old neighborhoods around downtown Detroit have simply disappeared, with no development to replace the bulldozed homes. New Detroit Mayor Dave Bing (yes, that Dave Bing), has a plan for fixing it:
Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.
Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. Suburban commuters heading into the city center might pass through what looks like the countryside to get there. Surviving neighborhoods in the birthplace of the auto industry would become pockets in expanses of green.
This would be like Queen Anne or Capitol Hill becoming completely abandoned and turned into farmland again. Hard to fathom, but this is what happened to what was once one of the wealthiest cities in the United States in the early half of the 20th century.
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Thinking out of the box–go, Dave. He was a helluva guard.
There certainly are some places in the greater Seattle area that could use a reboot like that.
Puddy likes the idea. Teach inner city children old time farming methods. Teaching inner city children to be politically self-sufficient and not beholden to government handouts from either side. Inner city children can run and play without worrying about cross-fire from a drug deal gone bad in an abandoned building.
Dave Bing is visionary. Puddy wonders if Microsoft will sue him and force him to change his name now that he’ll get face time over this idea?
Think about it… Bing is creating something without the Porkulus bill. People getting jobs bull dozing abandoned homes. People getting jobs sorting through the recycled metals from the appliances, electical wires and water pipes. People getting jobs from planting the trees and produce. People getting jobs from the new farms.
Interesting… Of course if this becomes a success we’ll see Odumba fly to Detroit and claim another “victory”. He’ll announce a guvmint program where you buy your car from Government Motors Corporation (GMC) and you’ll get your new GMC car loaded with inner city farmed produce. Watch!
Oakland County was the third or fourth wealthiest county in America at one time where the Detroit burbs are. Detroit is in Wayne County.
Anthropologists shall study the decline of Detroit for centuries. It is unique in North American history.
@4
Bing is creating something without the Porkulus bill.
Are you kidding? There’s no way in hell Bing pulls this off without federal assistance. And only then would all of the great stuff you mention after that be possible. That’s why stimulus bills work, genius.
@4,@6
From the article I linked to:
Now you’ve just described (in comment #4) all the downstream jobs that will be created through this stimulus:
So when politicians start slamming Bing’s requests for federal help as being “pork”, are you going to stand up and tell them that this creates jobs (as you just admitted), or are you going to do a 180 and join them?
It’s fairly obvious that:
a) Detroit can’t pay for this itself
and
b) If the federal government put down the seed money, it would create long-term sustaining jobs (as you’ve described)
Which is it, Puddy? Have you finally figured out that the anti-stimulus nonsense you’ve been spouting is just that – nonsense? Or are you going to flip your bean, start screaming “libtardo” to everyone, and continue to make arguments for people who don’t have your best interests at heart?
puddy shoots the footgun again.
@4
Actually, mayor Bing was one of the later players in this and there’s a hell of a lot of federal $ involved.
@8 – And Puddy is going to stay sad all his life. Wake up Puddy, your friend probably wouldn’t have wanted you to be sad for more than a week. Get over it.
That’s nuthin’. Eventually we rabbits will get it all back! Humans are a vanishing species. You may not think so, but your clock is ticking. Someday Republicans and abstinence education will take over again and then — boom! — no more humans. Then all your cities will become rabbit-filled meadows again. Please kill off all the dogs and peregrine falcons before you go.
Lee, where in your article does the money lobbied for come from the Porkulus Bill? You ASSUME it does. Puddy searched using Google. Detroit is the product of what it’s citizens voted for year after year after year. What’s the problem in Detroit… After voting BIG TIME for convicted criminal Kwame Kilpatrick, aren’t they getting what they want?
As of December 2009 only $130-billion was let for construction. This Detroit project has nothing mentioned in any article as being supplied by the Porkulus Bill. Puddy found this article where Bing asked for Porkulus money but Odumba hasn’t reacted so Puddy wrote his comment.
“Bing came into office saying he wants to compete for more grants and said most of the money he’s seeking is independent of stimulus funds. To date, the city has applied for nearly $300 million in grants, been awarded about $187 million but only received 10 to 12 percent of that money, city officials said.”
Find it and Puddy will recant.
Puddy also notices the moronic class commentary above proves no one really searches to find out what’s going on. Just like Puddy found out about Marcelas’ mother Tifanny and her great picture of health.
If the retards in Washington DC keep at it all of America is going to look like Detroit.
Lee: “Hard to fathom, but this is what happened to what was once one of the wealthiest cities in the United States in the early half of the 20th century.”
This is what happens when you let Democrats rule unrestrained for half a century.
To Democrats, destitution means that everyone is finally equal.
15. Phil spews:
Phil…way to nail it.
These Atheist Progressives seem to believe what they own is their’s and what everyone else owns is OURS??
Selfish bastards.
Somehow, they feel they will rise to become the Elitist Class when we are all more equal.
Goldy and his Northwest Division of Lunatic Moonbats seem to subscribe to what Napolean the Pig said in Animal Farm…
We are all equal..
Just some of us enolightened, arrogant bastards are more equal than others!
Since these pictures are of summer greenery (look at the trees libtardos). The ground is firm and grass has grown. Puddy knows the previous demolition funds DID NOT come from Porkulus Bill funds.
Of course the moronic libtardo class misses this too!
hey puddyidjit:
doesn’t matter if it’s fed funds or not, you got caught supporting a local gummint program and pointing out how it creates jobs and a good society.
now be a man, and admit this means your entire philosphy on gummint programs, crumbles.
@15,
Oh, right, the reason American auto makers have had to slash production and jobs is because Democrats have run the Detroit government for the last half century. Brilliant, let us know when the Nobel committee contacts you about your prize.
Dear righties,
What’s going on in Detroit and Flint MI is known as relocalization. Relocalization is owned, lock, stock and barrel, by the left. Relocalization is the product of lefty eco-freaks and new urbanists.
Suck it.
Michael
Although they are looking for private money, the streetcar that is being proposed for Woodward Ave in Detroit could possibly be getting some of the TIGER grants from the Stimulus. Detroit once had an extensive streetcar operation, even was using modern equipment(for the time) when it was shut down. The only thing that pretty much honors that is one MUNI PCC car in San Francisco.
http://streetcar.org/streetcars/1079/
A little background on the group pushing the private funding side for the Woodward Ave project, called M1 Rail.
http://www.m-1rail.com/
To DUH@18,
Helluva effort fool! Trying to trap Puddy? Where did Puddy not say it was a local guvmint program DUH? Go back and read what Puddy said above. Puddy brought up the Porkulus Bill. There is nothing in Mayor Bing’s activities supported by Porkulus. That’s all Puddy said back to Lee. Of course Puddy still waiting for Lee’s proof the Porkulus Bill provided the funds in 2009 when these pictures were taken.
Ask the arschloch for a link where Puddy railed on local guvmint creating jobs. Puddy been railing on the Porkulus Bill. And the jury evidence has shown a lot of it went to states to help their budgets/ Go on ask the arschloch DUH. Proud Goatist won’t. SeattleJew won’t. THE DUMB BUNNY won’t. Steve won’t. Maybe you’ll be the first to grow some marbuls and ask the arschloch.
Talk to THE DUMB BUNNY!
I have seen some interesting ideas pushed for Urban Agriculture before, mainly the Vertical Farming idea. Not sure if it would work in every situation.
http://www.verticalfarm.com/designs.html
Here is some URBAN RENEWAL uhhh… ACORN news…
“The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law achieved victory in its state RICO action against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). ACORN has agreed to settle the case and will cease all Ohio activity as a result. In its settlement with the 1851 Center, ACORN agreed to surrender all of its Ohio business licenses by June 1, 2010. Further, the organization cannot support or enable any individual or organization that seeks to engage in the same type of activity.” Emphasis Puddy!
Seeing ACORN surrender must be that the 1851 Center’s RICO evidence was exceptionally strong, and that national exposure of it would do serious damage to ACORN’s “reputation”.
PuddyCommentary… That’s too bad. Puddy wanted to see what was the real evidence. Must be ball busting…
@25
There’s quite a bit of really cool stuff going on with urban Ag.
They’re even making hydrogen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded
Whaddaya know, an original thought on what to do with urban blight.
And sorry, the decline of Detroit has nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. Blame the the health-insurance companies. Remember that it was the unprecedented greed of the insurance mafia that killed the auto industry, and the recession/depression/whatever was only the final nail in the coffin.
27,
It will be interesting to see if it will get more widespread, transportation costs are a big part of everything. Grain, in the case of the trucks that haul it to the grain elevators where the Shuttle Trains(usually 110 cars)that haul it to markets and ports, load. Although as more VF prototypes are tried out, they may prove to be more drought resistant than places on the Great Plains.
http://www.valcent.eu/VertiCropUK.html
They don’t because they don’t take orders from you fiend.
If YOU WANNA TOOT YOUR HORN USE YOUR OWN LUNGS FOOL!
What a miserable buffoon…
No arschloch,
They would have to acknowledge you, monomaniacal lowlife.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
@5 “Anthropologists shall study the decline of Detroit for centuries. It is unique in North American history.”
It certainly stands out in its severity, but it’s certainly not the first “rust belt” metropolis to fall into decline, nor will it be the last. Not by a long shot.
@5 “Anthropologists shall study the decline of Detroit for centuries. It is unique in North American history.”
I disagree. As we ship our jobs oversees, it’s just the first of many. Promoted by greedy republicans and spineless democrats. This could be Washington and Alabama in 40 years.
Check out the Ruins of Detroit
http://www.detroityes.com/down.....at_pan.htm
http://www.detroityes.com/indu.....inside.htm
http://www.detroityes.com/gild/03bp-2mansard.htm
http://www.seedetroit.com/pictures/mcsweb/
And
http://www.seedetroit.com/pictures/mcsweb/
@5 “Anthropologists shall study the decline of Detroit for centuries. It is unique in North American history.”
I disagree. As we ship our jobs oversees, it’s just the first of many. Promoted by greedy republicans and spineless democrats. This could be Washington State and Alabama in 40 years.
Check out the Ruins of Detroit
http://www.detroityes.com/down.....at_pan.htm
http://www.seedetroit.com/pictures/mcsweb/
@5 “Anthropologists shall study the decline of Detroit for centuries. It is unique in North American history.”
I disagree. As we ship our jobs oversees, it’s just the first of many. This could be Washington State and Alabama in 40 years.
I love the way you’re “acknowledged” around here fool.
Since the very beginning with howls of laughter..
For that most moronic of idiots:
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stimulus/
340 projects, 75000 jobs…
For that arschloch with the left porn eye…
The topic was Detroit fool. This is why you are the dumb brick of HA and the monomaniacal chronologically challenged arschloch!
BTW the challenge was where has Puddy railed on local gumint for job creation fool. Keep looking in your personal backup of Goldy’s HA Libtardo blog moron!
Pffffffft……!
LMBBAO LMBBAO
Oh yeah LMBBAO
ylb arschloch… the quote was
The quote was/is/always will be about you. You’re identified as monomaniacal by other leftist peeps. No one else.
Each time you post like the ylb arschloch@34 above provides additional fodder on your dumb brick-ness!
LMBBAO
And you brought the stimulus into it.. Here’s your stupidity about it:
There’s your ugly fixation on a government program that is helping people – as weak as it was, we’d be in a world of hurt without it.
Of course you’d be against it. It doesn’t kill people with funny names in foreign lands.
36 – LMAO!! Still feckless as ever…
Keep up the great work fiend. We’re building up to November..
Once again arschloch pay attention even though your attention span is the size of the arschloch. The item was Detroit. Puddy would suggest you revisit post #6, but you are a dumb brick. So what does Seattle have to do with Dave Bing and Detroit? There is no Porkulus Bill money for this project in 2009 or now fool.
ABSOLUTELY nuthin. You are an accident which already happened arschloch!
Puddy still waiting for Lee to prove Porkulus Bill money was used!
38 – You brought up the stimulus. You’re against people having an income and doing things this country needs or has put on the back burner while the private sector decides when shipping jobs overseas hurts more than it helps.
YOU BROUGHT IT UP.
Instead you want war. You want killing. That’s the perfect kind of government spending for you.
You want no help for people. You disgust me.
Umm, government handouts? You mean like the all-GOP-all-the-time Tri-Cities?
Or, were you thinking Alaska, Putster?
There’s a reason reich wingers are so hysterical when it comes to Reagan’s “welfare mom” myth – they know it’s the red rural states which suck off the teets of guv’mint:
http://www.perrspectives.com/b.....001439.htm
What is max babbling about@40?
Steve, more Psych 101 projection from the arschloch. Where is Puddy against peeps having income? Puddy is a capitalist fool! Where has Puddy said Puddy supports overseas job transfers? Puddy identified DUMMOCRAPTIC ock strap companies who shipped lots of jobs overseas arschloch!
Someday arschloch will understand why he’s the dumb brick of HA Libtardos! Whatamoron!
@41
Max makes perfect sense; you on the other hand babble, twist and distort.