Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Friday, March 03, 2006

Downtown Detroit in the distance, looking from Michigan Avenue

Speaking of deconcentration and decentralization, Detroit is probably the metropolitan area where these trends are the most pronounced, which makes sense since Detroit was the center of the industry producing the primary tool of the deconcentration movement, the automobile.

Photo from the Slow's Barbeque website, via Detroit's Girl in the D weblog.

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