Andrew Moylan on Reviving Detroit

In
the wake of officially receiving approval for bankruptcy
protection, Detroit’s story has become a familiar one. Once the
poster child of America’s industrial might and middle-class
prosperity, decades of economic decline have brought the city to
its knees before a bankruptcy court with as much as $20 billion in
debt. The decline of an iconic American city has led to a flurry of
finger-pointing, both to assign blame for the crisis and to
identify the right direction forward. Reshaping a broken city with
strong traditions of insularity and distrust of authority would be
difficult in any event, writes Andrew Moylan, but the nature of
Detroit’s problems puts it in essentially uncharted territory.

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