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March 11, 2010

Detroit areas going back to fields, farms

  • The current plan would demolish 10,000 houses and empty buildings in three years and pump new investment into stronger neighborhoods.
    • By DAVID RUNK
    Associated Press Writer

    DETROIT — Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.

    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.


     
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