Perspective
Mar. 31, 2011
Detroit and the Decline of American Cities: Once More With Feeling
The urban sprawl that has occurred in many U.S. cities is rooted in poor government planning. By Gideon Kanner of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP.
Detroit is in the news again. The New York Times just ran a human interest story about the Grandmont Rosedale neighborhood in Detroit, a nice place whose residents have banded together and are doing their best to preserve it. Nice, uplifting stuff. See A.G. Sulzberger, "Trying to Save a City, or at Least a Part," N.Y. Times, March 26, at p. A12. What caught my eye is this article's recitation of how the calamity...
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