10.11.10

Re Imagining Detroit

- Detroit, MI -

 "French Filmaker Florent Tillon hopes his documentary "Wild City Detroit" will draw attention to the citie's attempt to reinvent itself." photo via CNN+Floren TIllon.

"Now that we've emptied out a good portion of the city and we don't expect to fill it up again with shopping malls and new housing, we can be a greener city; a more environmentally sustainable city with more parks and more green corridors -- perhaps using Detroit land not for consumption but for production.

"We might have wind farms or fields of solar panels, urban agriculture, grow our own food -- there's already a local food movement and a lot of interest in urban agriculture." more

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