Five Myths About Detroit<\/a>\u00a0in the Washington Post.<\/p>\nNow, granted, I disagree with much of the rest of what the author says.\u00a0 But he\u2019s dead on that there are no quick fixes. \u2014 and, from the Renaissance Center to the Poletown plant to the Greektown Casinos to the proposed new hockey stadium, Detroit\u2019s planners have been all about the quick fix!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cIt has taken more than a half-century for Detroit to fall this low, and the Motor City will take a long time to right itself. There are no quick fixes for its deep-rooted, systemic problems. Sharing public services with the suburbs, focusing on small neighborhood-by-neighborhood improvements instead of blockbuster redevelopment projects and improving public schools […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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