Fixing a Broken City
by Nate Berg
MetropolisMag.com
November 24, 2009
Just across the river from Detroit sits a city forgotten. Battered by the fall of the auto industry and struggling to keep its economy running, Windsor, Ontario, has seen some tough times in recent years, and things aren”™t likely to improve any time soon. It has the highest unemployment rate in Canada, a plummeting population, and the empty storefronts and foreclosed homes that have come to define this generation”™s Great Recession.
Though geographically south, Windsor”™s been called the Detroit of the North. For some locals, it”™s simply a broken city. But there”™s a growing movement that believes Windsor is a city that can be fixed.
Read the rest of this article about the work of the Broken City Lab here.
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Welcome to Detroit
by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
MetropolisMag.com
September 3, 2009
Within hours of arriving in Detroit, nearly $14,000 worth of computers, iPods, cameras, and art supplies went missing from the backseat of a car. The robbery was surprisingly quick, executed in the few minutes the vehicle was left unguarded on the street. The two victims knew better than to leave valuables in plain site, yet they hadn”™t quite expected the crime. Neither had they backed up their hard drives properly, so the loss was more than just monetary.
Welcome to Detroit. Continue reading “Tales of Two Broken Cities”