Welcome to Somalia. Detroit is now a ghetto. It needs to be leveled and turned into pasture.
I was there like 10 years ago and saw an aerial photo of Tigers stadium. Even then it looked like you could take a D-9 Cat and work hard for 3 days and turn the whole city back into prime farm ground. Along about that time I read that Detroit residents were spotting pheasants growing wild within the city limits. I'm sure it's even worse now.
——It needs to be leveled and turned into pasture.——
The current mayor has proposed just that. There are neighborhoods for which services are provided and almost no people. The proposal is to cease services to these near dead neighborhoods, move the few remaining residents, mainly older single women, into refurbished city owned residences in thriving neighborhoods.
The vacated areas will in fact be plowed under and de annexed
He has a workable plan that could solve many problems
They are working on that...
Deep in financial crisis, Detroit wants to save itself by turning urban areas back to farmland
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/deep_in_financial_crisis_detro.html
Plowing Detroit Into Farmland
http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/plowing-detroit-into-farmland/
A better idea would be to put a fence around it, call it the Museum of Liberalism and charge admission to schools and tour groups.