Government,
Bankruptcy
Aug. 15, 2013
Detroit and the decline of American cities
The vaunted return to cities is no more than a trickle of increasingly elderly empty nesters and childless yuppies - hardly a cohort capable of reestablishing a robust middle class whose values and political clout are essential to cities' continuous wellbeing.
All the foofaraw over Detroit's bankruptcy has reminded me of a human interest story from a couple of years ago about the Grandmont Rosedale neighborhood in Detroit - a still, nice place whose residents have banded together and are doing their best to preserve it. Nice, uplifting, human interest stuff. What caught my eye is the article's recitation of the conventional wisdom of the factors that were the causes of the calamity that befell Detroit: "The many forces behind Detroit's shrink...
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