Brett Dills

Detroit: The New American Frontier October 27, 2009

I came across this article in another blog.  Very interesting.  Detroit has huge swaths of wide open land from all of the house that have been torn down.  The pictures are amazing.  The premise of the article is that the city is becoming one huge urban laboratory because there is so little enforcement of city ordinances, and so much wide open space, that people can come in to town and do pretty much whatever they want.  Houses are selling for $50 to $100.  There is also an effort to use some of this empty land for agricultural purposes to help feed the poor in the city.  (And there are a lot of them.)