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I read several books about urban planning and cities and it helped me understand how this happened all over the us. Detroit just got the worst of it. There are
by jamespitts 14y ago
I read several books about urban planning and cities and it helped me understand how this happened all over the us. Detroit just got the worst of it. There are countless examples of horrible planning decisions in D., so many street-life-killing fortresses and dead voids everywhere.
I do think that the people of D. will overcome these obstacles now that the core problems are identified.
Do you remember anything about the conditions leading up to the riots?
I remember taking a series of bus rides through central LA in 1990 (2 years before the riots) and all I could see were thrashed neighborhoods and desolate stretches. It is a whole different world now, so much more life on the streets when I go back.
- voltagex_ 14y agoHey, any book recommendations? Not for Detroit specifically, but urban planning is interesting.
- jamespitts 14y agoDeath and Life of Great American Cities - the intellectual blueprint of the great counter-reaction to reductionism and modernism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Ame... City of Quartz - all about the history of LA and its power structures, lots of great anecdotes about zoning and the nasty history of racial segregation through real estate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_quartz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_quartz Suburban Nation The Modern Urban Landscape