by Sam Brennan
-Ranked #31 by Sustain lane
-Ranked high in water supply, housing affordability, and natural disaster risk
-Ranked low in Planning and Land use, Green economy, and green building
-Used to have 2 million people now contains 950,000
-City was designed for the automobile
- The large quantity of vacant lots allows for many community garden projects
- Business entrepreneur Hantz buying 5,000 acres of farmland, envisioning a new type of city
- This is important as Detroit can be considered a “food desert”
- That is a strength of Detroit as many people see it as blank canvas with space to work with
- For example my uncle’s Green Garage
- zero energy building, no trash, 90 years old former model T factory
- to serve as office space for green enterprises
-also to be part of Detroit’s new green community
-living space within walking distance as well as community garden’s
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