Postcard: Downsizing Detroit

摘要

In late march a star urban planner named Toni Griffin will begin a new assignment. She'll help lead what might be the most ambitious urban makeover in American history-the downsizing of Detroit, a city built to accommodate a population more than twice its current size. At a recent panel convened by Time and the Brookings Institution, Mayor Dave Bing made clear what many had suspected-that he intends to shrink the city, which cannot afford to serve dying neighborhoods.