Is Detroit fixable? How would you fix it?

[LastVoter]

I think the best idea is to create Urban parks out of the low density neighborhoods, and once you take out the bad parts hope that the land will be in demand again 20 or 30 years.

[LastVoter]

I think the best idea is to create Urban parks out of the low density neighborhoods, and once you take out the bad parts hope that the land will be in demand again 20 or 30 years.

The whole 'city' is 'bad parts'. And it will never be in demand again because it is an urban wasteland.

Well the Central Buisness district is still there. So you could try building around that and convert 50% of the other land into parks and try growing from the district outward. But looking at the Google Earth map it is  disgusting.

[LastVoter]

I think the best idea is to create Urban parks out of the low density neighborhoods, and once you take out the bad parts hope that the land will be in demand again 20 or 30 years.

The whole 'city' is 'bad parts'. And it will never be in demand again because it is an urban wasteland.

I'm curious.  Have you actually ever spent a substantial amount of time in Detroit?  I haven't but a lot of people I know who have lived there like the place.  I've interrogated them about it several times because my assumption was it was a bombed out wasteland of little worth.  They tell me its actually pretty cool and they would move back there.  These people were all professionals with graduate degrees.  They were white and black.  I dunno.  I just don't think that place is the 100% write off we've been led to believe.

Look at Google Earth maps, and you will go, oh sh**t...
Before I opened this thread I thought Detroit was ed, but then I decided to look at google maps and i realized it's pretty much FUBAR'd. Like you need radical solutions for all the empty low density populations, urban gardens sounds good, but I think creating parks/potential recreation areas will make the land price surrounded by that go up a lot.

[LastVoter]

I have to agree with Al here. The only real way to "fix" Detroit is to raze the central business district along with the most severely dilapidated neighborhoods around it and start from scratch. The core of the city has no appeal to outside residents, even without the crime and poor education system, beyond the low price of housing/cost of living.

I think it would be more beneficial to the non-wasteland neighborhoods to have designated drug districts in the post-Armageddon neighborhoods of Detroit where the sale/use of drugs is explicitly permitted as opposed to just permitting it across the city. Paramedics would be on stand-by there and clean needles would be available to make sure that complications are minimized. Yes, I stole this idea from the Wire. You have to admit it's pretty novel.

Open buildings rather than Areas where drug use is allowed, and have medical staff in them. Something like Insite in Vancouver but with drugs being sold there. Also add security there so that nobody leaves the area with hard drugs. I am not sure what's up with the hate on CBD though, they are ugly to a certain degree in every city. Why raze it if people want to use it? Better off trying to rebuild Detroit from CBD with medium density buildings stretching outward. Something like Copenhagens 5 fingers plan with wilderness or parks in between the fingers.