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What mayor of detroit is trying to do with the city and the downsizing thing is really interesting. and nobody knows how it's going to play out. in your book, you say the prospect of such a comprehensive reckoning with land use, to say the downsizing, depopulation sprawl and the future of the american city felt like an important moment one with potential application for the aging metropolises large and small which made the present day state of our union so atypically morbid. the plan could be one of the bollest reimagings of urban space in modern u.s. history. >> sadly there's no money to enac...

Is detroit ever going to be a manufacturing center like it was in we really don't know. i think the president pointed out, you know, he's gotten hit hard from the republicans as far as economic recovery and jobs coming back and this is what he said in the second debate and i thought it was an interesting moment of honesty about where america's sort of manufacturing jobs are going to be. let's take a listen. >> there's some jobs that are not going to come back. because they're low wage, low skill jobs. i want high wage, high skill jobs. that's why we have to emphasize manufacturing. that's why ...

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It would be an amazing ♪ effectively to clarify, turning this land over to become gardens or vacant lots i think, 40% of the real estate parcels in the city only 40% are paying taxes but detroit is 140 square miles and 40 square miles of that are vacant. >> the problem is, it's not -- people think it's like one chunk of vacant land the size of paris, but it's spread over the city. the tricky thing is incentivizing people to move into more dense urban cores and then b, getting this vacant land away from people who are sitting on it who maybe live in california. there are lots of land speculat...

Grocery chains, in the city of detroit. you have to leave the city in order to get food, produce, and -- but there is a whole foods that is opening, but the majority of people can't afford that. >> that's really for the newcomers and all the young, new excited people coming to detroit which is wonderful, but we want to make sure the rest of the detroiters who have stuck with the city for all these years don't get left behind. >> and salon article from this year speaks to that. they were in the piece, they write what these dreams seldom include however are the almost unimaginable systemic probl...