The Great City Of Detroit

As a child, I remember growing up in the beautiful city of Detroit, Michigan. It was clothed with one hundred plus degree summers, 6 feet or more of snow winters. A building called the Renaissance, which housed a rotating restaurant on the Penthouse level. It was the Motor city home of General Motors and the Motown city of music. Growing up there was so much fun and amazing to me. Where we would watch the bright, red, blue, green and yellow fireworks on the Fourth of July at Edgewater Park every summer, participate in community activities at the 4-H club. There were barbecues with our neighbors, one of which had a daughter with the exact first, middle and last name as mine. On the one side of me a lady everyone referred to as Ms. Pat, use to bake fresh yeast bread from scratch, and would always share with me and my sisters. We could smell it while outside playing in the yard and inside the house. Then you had the neighbor across the street with the rough edge to them, where you would hear an argument or two every once in a while, but when Mama needed some help while my stepfather was away in the Army, she could call on Joey and he would always be right there with his "yes ma'am and no ma'am" etiquette. With the memories of all things good from the eyes of a child, seeing everything as

I was up raised in a tight-knit Jewish community, in a suburban county in Florida. Having briefly visited New York City as a child, I become fascinated with the great city. I was simply amazed with the cultural vitality of New York, relative to the modest diversity in my neighborhood.

The great city of Washington D.C, founded in 1790, by great intellectuals, to control rest

As a critic interacting with this “thing” I deduce that it reflects my values and aspirations as a designer because as stated in my ethos, it challenges the viewers to reflect and to act upon them. It allows for individuals to think about what object creates meaning in their lives by seeing examples provided by my work. The Heildberg project was created using artifacts that contributed to the history and value of the city of Detroit. My project also allows for individuals to explore their creativity and encourage a stronger connection of the community.

Furthermore, it also represents a great compromised to those who advocate for it, because while communities might be facing the changes done by it, there would still be parcels of land entrusted to community stewardship. Right now Austin is currently just doing single plots of land, but what if other trusts invested in whole city blocks or neighborhoods? Such in areas like Detroit, where housing is affordable and in need of community investment that will give back, whole areas could be possibly saved from losing their character and identity in the process. This is in a way, responsible gentrification because individual communities themselves as well as their residents taking control of their communities and not outside speculators. According of Melora Hiller the executive director of the Community Land Trust Network, other cities such as Baltimore, Maryland are forming trusts to turn vacant homes for the homeless, so not only are these helping the alleviate the fears of lower income people they are also helping to fight back against a social issues that have long been ignored. Therefore, this source was very informative for my paper, because it helped to shape my part of my solution for gentrification, which is we need more individuals and communities to take

A culture has dissipated with the residents who have left, and these effects will only continue to be felt as the area is cleaned up of its environmental contamination. Ridding Newtown Creek and its surrounding neighborhoods of pollutants will only make them “more attractive and drive up real estate prices,” thus benefiting real estate developers and putting residents in a deeper state of disadvantage. Real estate companies and the Department of City Planning should be required to provide affordable housing targeted at certain income groups in the area in order to make it more possible for diverse groups of people to live there even as environmental cleanup takes place. Groups in charged of housing and development in the area ultimately have authority over mitigating the issue of gentrification, which will only prove to have more significance in the coming years as populations increase and environmental cleanup takes

The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative is a perfect example of such efforts in Boston, Massachusetts. The neighborhood was plighted with all the aforementioned disadvantages, such as red lining, burnt down houses, and then the empty lots became a dumping grounds. Through the neighborhoods efforts, they raised awareness of their issue and got changes in policy to prevent dumping. They also utilized imminent domain to reclaim the abandoned lots in their neighborhood and then through the creation of their own Community Development Corporation were able to build new affordable housing in its place. Though all this, they were also able to get banks to reinvest in the area so they can continue to develop. Other cities can and have utilized similar methods and practices but the results are deeply dependent on the participation of community members and the willingness of the city to assist. DSNI was able to circumnavigate the city’s lack of cooperation in investing through the creation of their

Even after reading Mark Binelli 's book Detroit City is the Place to Be, it is difficult to believe that the city he is writing about exists here in the United States. This is after all, an economically prosperous, first world country. What Binelli so vividly describes is a place that could very well exist in some third world country. A third world slum-like city that boasts of not only one, but two professional sports teams. It is intriguing to ponder the whys and how’s of Detroit 's condition and failure to thrive. Despite the best intentions by those tasked with reviving and restoring this city to an at least functional state (the best that could seemingly be hoped for), Detroit seems to continuously decline. Binelli takes the reader through the sequences of events and causes that moved Detroit from a nineteenth century economically prosperous city, to a present day ghost of what once was.

These factors have also affected the landscape of the City of Detroit. Detroit Future City releases Blight Removal Task Force Action Plan in May 2014 for the City of Detroit. In this plan, it stated how many vacant properties that the City of Detroit has they are; 84,641 total blight structures, 73,035 residential blighted structures, 6,135 vacant lots that need clearing and 5,471 nonresidential structures (Detroit Blight Removal Task Force Plan, 2014). This question for this case study is: How will blight affect the redevelopment of the City of Detroit? The first objective will be to defined what exactly is blight and how are states defining what blight is? Second a review of blight elimination strategies currently in cities with high vacancy rates such as Baltimore, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Philadelphia. Third a review of blight elimination strategies in Detroit Michigan since the bankruptcy. Lastly, the case study will review vacant land use strategies that Detroit has implemented and other strategies that cities when vacant land have used

One theory for the economic development of Detroit is rooted in “urban anchors”, which are basically institutions or businesses that literally serve as anchors for the city in terms of commerce, education, healthcare, technology, transportation, or other major categories. These are

At the beginning of Chapter 20, it was discussed how 80% of Rio de Janeiro has become urbanized, yet the other 20% of citizens live in slums. This is similar to what is happening in Detroit and my family and I witnessed that first hand when we took a trip to Detroit a couple years back. While living in Downtown Detroit, I was never aware that most of the city’s area was covered in slums, until I travelled around the city. I was astonished to see street after street filled with slums and abandoned homes. In addition, I began to realize how the higher authorities in Detroit try to conceal this part of Detroit. These individuals only desire you to observe Downtown Detroit, filled with massive buildings and stadiums, even though majority of the

Detroit is known as the “motor city.” If the city implements new changes to the infrastructure, business environment, labor markets, social environment, Detroit will definitely turn around and can become a major place for successful future businesses. With it’s innovation, technology, diverse networking the city’s future businesses will continue to grow and thrive.

Cities consist of a mass of residents, businesses, and culture all concentrated into one specific area. With that being said, we can all agree that these things are important in order to make a city livable and preserve its diversity, residents, sidewalks, parks, and the sizes of its blocks. Everyone has their own opinion of what make a city livable. For instance, city planners also known as decentrist believe that the standard way of building a city was the right way of doing things. Their idea was to the centralize the city by endowing small towns. In the book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs, She introduces new principles in city planning and reconstruction. She believes that city planning isn't the conflict

As given, it is well-known that Detroit has gone through decades of economic and social decay and has one of the highest crime rates in the country. Meanwhile, Boston is home to some of the top universities and medical schools in the world and has one of the lowest crime rates.

Bam! I woke with a start in the back of a olive green Ford Flex. I don’t know exactly how long I was asleep for, but when I woke up I was cruising through the motor city. I was on my way to a mission trip in Detroit, Michigan with three of my close friends. While Jonah, Jack, Jackson and I had just driven over seven hours and we were finally there. For the next week dozens of kids like us were going to be helping the less fortunate of Detroit. To be honest I wasn’t very excited at first, and I wasn’t sure how much we could help in just one short week. However, I would soon discover that our work would bring joy and happiness long after my friends and I had gone.