Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking

[Squiggy]

Maybe they could turn it into a gated community for people who like the Post Apocalyptic genre.

Welcome to Mad Max Acres. Condo fees are due by the 5th of the month.

I suppose the main street in Mad Max Acres is called Snake Pliskin Drive?

28 blocks later, after Snake Pliskin Drive...or just beyond the Silverdome, you'll come up on Waterworld ®. "Wet Fun for the all the Children of Man!"

 

[Mike Farley]

^ The alternative is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to maintain infrastructure that isn't being used. If that land is no longer urban, there's 40 sq. miles which no longer need water pipes, an extensive power grid, road maintenance, schools, police coverage, etc. Long term, it's probably a money-saving proposal.

Why not rent the land to movie companies? It'd be perfect for post-apocalyptic action flicks, Escape from New York-type movies, anything requiring vast swaths of urban ruin. They could just abandon the land and let the buildings decay -- the dirtier and more dilapidated, the better!

At least let them get in one more Robocop movie!

 

[John Picard]

^ The alternative is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to maintain infrastructure that isn't being used. If that land is no longer urban, there's 40 sq. miles which no longer need water pipes, an extensive power grid, road maintenance, schools, police coverage, etc. Long term, it's probably a money-saving proposal.

Why not rent the land to movie companies? It'd be perfect for post-apocalyptic action flicks, Escape from New York-type movies, anything requiring vast swaths of urban ruin. They could just abandon the land and let the buildings decay -- the dirtier and more dilapidated, the better!

At least let them get in one more Robocop movie!

Wasn't there supposed to be one coming out in 2010?

 

[Mike Farley]

I think that was/is a remake and is still in the development phase.

 

[Canadave]

^Thats a joke, dude.

Haha, my bad. I tend to get instinctively combative when talking about urban issues (it's a bit of a passion of mine), so I tend to miss things like that.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Why not rent the land to movie companies? It'd be perfect for post-apocalyptic action flicks, Escape from New York-type movies, anything requiring vast swaths of urban ruin. They could just abandon the land and let the buildings decay -- the dirtier and more dilapidated, the better!

Would you want to live next to land like that?

I'm sure that one square mile preserved would be enough for these purposes.

Perhaps, but then that same land would pop up so often you'd get people talking about "Planet Detroit" instead of "Planet Vancouver".

 

[RJDiogenes]

Welcome to Mad Max Acres. Condo fees are due by the 5th of the month.

I suppose the main street in Mad Max Acres is called Snake Pliskin Drive?

28 blocks later, after Snake Pliskin Drive...or just beyond the Silverdome, you'll come up on Waterworld ®. "Wet Fun for the all the Children of Man!"

In the other direction, of course, is the Romero Mall.

 

[Captain Shaw]

Their was a show on BBC 2 last night about the ups and downs of Detroit quite intresting.
At the end it showed you a group of people who had moved to Detroit to see if they could make enough money off the land to live.