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<\/a>\nWhat to do with Detroit?\n<\/a>\nWhat to do with Detroit?\n\nCindy Perman writes for CNBC:<\/a>\n\nMayor Dave Bing is apparently working on a radical plan that would bulldoze a quarter of the city \u2014 some of the most desolate areas \u2014 and return it to farmland, the way it was before the automobile. Any residents still there would be relocated to stronger neighborhoods.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nDan Kildee, treasurer of Genessee County, containing Flint, Michigan, remarks:\n
\n“The obsession with growth is sadly a very American thing. Across the US, there\u2019s an assumption that all development is good, that if communities are growing they are successful. If they\u2019re shrinking, they\u2019re failing.”\n<\/blockquote>\nActually, building more subdivisions just increases the deficit between\ntax revenues collected and cost of services provided.\n\nPerman concludes:\n
\nWelcome to the future. Why does it look so much like 1910 instead of 2010?\n<\/blockquote>\nPerhaps because 1910 had railroads for mass transit and cities were still\ndense and close to existing services?\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to do with Detroit? Cindy Perman writes for CNBC: Mayor Dave Bing is apparently working on a radical plan that would bulldoze a quarter of the city \u2014 some of the most desolate areas \u2014 and return it to farmland, the way it was before the automobile. Any residents still there would be relocated […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,21],"tags":[5843,31,5836,5842,5837,5835,4402,5512,5839,5838,1603,8711,5840,5841],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-planning","tag-5843","tag-automobile","tag-bulldoze","tag-cost-of-services","tag-dan-kildee","tag-dave-bing","tag-detroit","tag-farmland","tag-flint","tag-genessee-county","tag-michigan","tag-planning","tag-railroads","tag-tax-revenues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-I6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}