Dateline Detroit

[Shirley]

Towntalk- thanks for the link! Will try to watch some of it tonight.

[jay]

The murder rate in Detroit was excessive.  Other forms of crime were also out of control.  These are reasons why people flee the city and move to the suburbs.  (Also applys to Youngstown)

[AllanY2525]

Detroit is going through the same thing as Youngstown - on a much larger scale.

Detroit has a built infrastructure designed to support two million people. 
Now they have about eight hundred thousand people.  

Just like Youngstown, they'v lost about 50% +/- of their population so... large
areas of the city need to "go away".     Youngstown has the right idea - shrinking
its way back to prosperity.  The more dead infrastructure the city can remove,
the less Detroit will have to maintain with the number of taxpayers they have left in
the city.  I read somewhere that Detroit is thinking about urban gardens.   it's
a good idea.

The one thing about the Dateline Detroit show that made me chuckle is that they
were saying that nothing like this has ever been done before......they obviously
have NOT read about Youngstown's 2010 Plan.

[Towntalk]

Here's the link where you can watch the program.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600

[Mary]

We watched dateline this evening. It was sad to see what Detroit has come to. One of the things they did talk about was shrinking the city. They have 40 square miles of abandoned structures they would like to bulldoze. Mayor said the hardest thing to do is convince people to move out of the areas where only a few homes remain.

[jay]

Maybe the story can be seen over the internet.

[Shirley]

Only caught the last few minutes. Wish I would have seen the whole thing. It did sound kind of like Youngstown.

[jay]

Did anyone watch Dateline on NBC this evening?  The entire hour was devoted to the many problems facing the city of Detroit.  There was a lot of Youngstown in that story.