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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Detroit: A New American Frontier

Detroit: A New American Frontier
Aaron M. Renn, YES! Magazine: "Detroit has become a byword for extreme urban contraction. Yet as the population, industry, and built environment of the city of Detroit have collapsed, Detroit's urban footprint has continued to expand. In Detroit, even the dead are sprawling, as families disinter bodies from urban cemeteries to rebury them in the suburbs. Is there any greater sign of both the physical and psychological abandonment of the city?"
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