What about Detroit?

It may seem obsessive on my part, and perhaps it is. But I find myself frequently preoccupied with such questions: "What does it mean for the (low income and working class, especially) People of the United States when the Mayor of our once proud Motor City, Detroit, announced in 2010 his unprecedented plan to demolish at least one fourth of Motown's remaining neighborhoods, the aim being to concentrate Detroit's 700,000 or 750,000 inhabitants (Detroit's population was approximately 1,800,000 in 1950!) into a geographically limited number of "viable" districts?" The issue goes far beyond Detroit, to equally devastated Flint in Michigan. To Cleveland, Canton and Akron in Ohio. Buffalo NY and St. Louis Missouri. Here in Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Janesville, Racine and Beloit aren't quite in the Detroit/Flint category, but they're sure suffering. I'd very much like to hear or see, from academics and the unemployed; from professional demographers and Rust Belt refugees; from anyone with an opinion. Share your stories, your analysis, your hopes and dreams. Your demands that the USA - the need seems plain as daylight to me - embrace a NEW Industrial Policy. How about ANY Manufacturing policy at all? I'm no professor, but I'd appreciate valuable input of a statistical, personal, even anecdotal nature. Though I intend to subject the latter (both positive and negative in their implications) to a vigorous analysis. I'm prepared to stay open-minded and dispassionate. I'll give due consideration to all viewpoints. This subject continues to be much in the way of a learning experience for me. http://loadstonerock.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/bulldozing-detroit-a-radical-solution-for-urban-blight/ http://www.npr.org/2011/07/21/138576100/is-detroit-the-next-brooklyn