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Detroit shows way to beat inner city blues (A nascent turnaround is slowly blooming)
Financial Times ^
| 04/10/2013
| Richard Florida
Posted on 04/10/2013 6:26:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: lacrew
The artists make so little money that they need nearly free housing and work space. These hipsters are slightly better than squatters who live off public benefits.
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posted on
04/10/2013 7:28:11 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
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posted on
04/10/2013 7:34:02 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: SeekAndFind
There is a hipster bunch there moving in
Drawn by cheap space and community of themselves
Way early to tell how it goes
And completely surrounded by serious zombies
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posted on
04/10/2013 7:38:15 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
To: SeekAndFind
The movie industry just flits from freebies to freebies. Once they find a better deal they will be gone.
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posted on
04/10/2013 7:38:27 AM PDT
by
FreedomGuru
(Without Life nothing else matters.)
To: lacrew
This is a common dream for urban planner types. They shout from the rooftops that people are coming back to the city....but its only after buildings are abandoned and rents are so low, that young and artsy and hip people move in and make the city vibrant. This looks like the typical new urbanism article: "All the cool kids are moving back downtown. You should be forced to do it to." How many of those same "cool kids" will sprint back to the suburbs as soon as they have a baby and start thinking about schools or their kids playing out in the street.
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posted on
04/10/2013 7:45:34 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
04/10/2013 7:49:53 AM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
To: SeekAndFind
Statistics say that the number of white people in Detroit under the age of 65 is about 50,000.
That is very, very far from critical mass.
For comparison Newark, NJ has about the same numbers of the same demographic in a city half the size.
To: lacrew
To: SeekAndFind
Democrats still run the place. eom.
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posted on
04/10/2013 8:38:36 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: dangus
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posted on
04/10/2013 8:57:31 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
To: SeekAndFind
I could see Detroit being a draw for producers of movies about armageddon, urban decay, failed liberal policies...
Oh, what am I saying??? Movie producers marketing in truth?
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posted on
04/10/2013 9:00:00 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
To: 17th Miss Regt
The pollyanna tone certainly makes it seem unbelievable. But editing like this does not help either. Irrevocable??? Yeah, I had to read that sentence a few times to figure out that he meant the *history* of those days is what's irrevocable. The memory would be "irrevocable" if the crime hadn't driven out all of the producers with the memories, leaving the slag who don't remember anything except for the drugs and the great times they had in the '60's burning the place down.
I think the writer was just throwing around $10 words to impress the reader. It's pretty common in the financial media.
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posted on
04/10/2013 9:03:44 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
To: BlueStateRightist
To: ScottinVA
RE: I could see Detroit being a draw for producers of movies about armageddon, urban decay, failed liberal policies...
We have films about the apocalyptic future made earlier with titles like ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and ESCAPE FROM L.A.
We can make a similar film about Detroit and the setting could be in the present.
To: ScottinVA
Is that you, Mayor Bing?
Guess again...
To: dangus
I looked it up and was a bit surprised you can open-carry in Detroit proper. I was not surprised to read the cops *will* stop you and harass you every time “to make sure you understand the law.” (Hey Officer brainiac, I’m carrying aren’t I? Then I know the law well enough.) LEOs there are the same as everywhere else: They’ll knowingly lie to the citizens and break the law if they think they can get away with it.
I was disappointed to read Tasers are illegal in MI.
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posted on
04/10/2013 9:14:07 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
To: lacrew
The author is a professor - - an economist and social scientist - - who teaches in Canada and pushes his theory about the
"creative class".
To: Lancey Howard
He probably lives in a gated community.
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posted on
04/10/2013 9:19:41 AM PDT
by
lacrew
(Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
To: lacrew
No gated communities in Canada. No need for them either.
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posted on
04/10/2013 9:56:58 AM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
To: Squawk 8888
Oh....Canada
Mr. Google shows me there are gated communities in Canada.
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posted on
04/10/2013 10:05:37 AM PDT
by
lacrew
(Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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