[Southack]

"Richard Florida, a Toronto business professor and author of "Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life," argues that dense and diverse cities with "accelerated rates of urban metabolism" are the communities most likely to innovate their way through economic crisis..."

So diverse Detroit is innovating. Who knew?!

[Gorzaloon]

So diverse Detroit is innovating. Who knew?!

Cities don't innovate. They are just run by the children and grandchildren of the thugs who always ran them. How can they innovate unless they are cleaned up at the top? And that cannot happen because the parasites are embedded like ticks, and have built political machines.

If a city were a dog, it would be easy...worm medicine.

[Appleby]

Oh, so he is from Toronto! I hope he was on the 51st floor in a 338 square foot condo when we had the massive Great Northeast Blackout a few years ago. No water (the pumps quit when the power goes off), no elevators, no air conditioning and no lights.

I hope he was in the same place on the coldest day in 2009 when we had a massive blackout due to a sprinkler pipe bursting and flooding one of the downtown hydro stations. Or in the building where the hydro exploded and everyone was put out of their homes for a couple of months and had to live in shelters or schools or wherever they could until the city got around to repairing the building (and when they came back, they found that teenagers from the community — later caught — had been in the *secure* building and looted it.

Yep, living jammed together in 60 story buildings with no view but other buildings, in a city where both power and water are problematical especially in winter is waaaaaay better than living on your own land with a yard and a view of the lake!

Feh.