Well, as a longtime Michigander & longtime Detroiter: let me assure you that Detroit can be unpleasant, however it can also be quite pleasant. It's like it's a real place and not just the rhetorical black sheep of America's failed urban policies and drug war.
On the other hand, when it comes to food: I would argue that Detroit's food is probably better than yours.
Example 1:
http://www.detroiteasternmarket.com Eastern Market is the largest public market distict in the country and runs year round offering excellent produce and meat much of which is from the immediate area (which spans across the river into Canadia of course). Given Detroit's infamous status as the American city that has lost the most population ever (from a peak of 1.85 million down to 710 thousand people as of 2010), besting number two, Chicago, by a bit more than 100 thousand people, there are several areas of concentrated vacancy that have come to make for excellent farm land.
Example 2:
http://greeningofdetroit.com/ The premaire organization of the urban agricultural movement in Detroit that tests potential urban farms & gardens for lead and other contamenents and beautifies parks and greens corridors. They also run programs like
http://detroitagriculture.net/farms-and ... n-detroit/ which allow small farms and urban gardens to cooperate to sell their Grown in Detroit produce.
Example 3: The question of water. Michigan has the great lakes which is one of the world's most important sources of fresh water. While it is true that industry has long had negative effects on the rouge river which runs through the south of Detroit (meaning downriver) by way of suburbs like Dearborn that use it as a sewage overflow, the city does not get its water from this decimated area but rather much farther up stream where there is not the same environmental devistation. As such the city's water system (which services the sprawl that grew at a fast pace from its inception in the post-war fourties until the early eighties when it stagnated) is among the cleanest and highest quality in the country.
So while Detroit may be known for murder, and failed urban policies (statuses for which we compete with St. Louis for number one), the paradox of this comic is that Detroit is also becoming known as a place where food actually comes from the city and locale instead of being imported from disperate countries like elsewhere in the US.
But the nation does needs its black sheep. Even if the monster you all imagine is not entirely the reality on the ground.
Well, as a longtime Michigander & longtime Detroiter: let me assure you that Detroit can be unpleasant, however it can also be quite pleasant. It's like it's a real place and not just the rhetorical black sheep of America's failed urban policies and drug war.
On the other hand, when it comes to food: I would argue that Detroit's food is probably better than yours.
Example 1: [url]http://www.detroiteasternmarket.com[/url] Eastern Market is the largest public market distict in the country and runs year round offering excellent produce and meat much of which is from the immediate area (which spans across the river into Canadia of course). Given Detroit's infamous status as the American city that has lost the most population ever (from a peak of 1.85 million down to 710 thousand people as of 2010), besting number two, Chicago, by a bit more than 100 thousand people, there are several areas of concentrated vacancy that have come to make for excellent farm land.
Example 2: [url]http://greeningofdetroit.com/[/url] The premaire organization of the urban agricultural movement in Detroit that tests potential urban farms & gardens for lead and other contamenents and beautifies parks and greens corridors. They also run programs like [url]http://detroitagriculture.net/farms-and-markets/grown-in-detroit/[/url] which allow small farms and urban gardens to cooperate to sell their Grown in Detroit produce.
Example 3: The question of water. Michigan has the great lakes which is one of the world's most important sources of fresh water. While it is true that industry has long had negative effects on the rouge river which runs through the south of Detroit (meaning downriver) by way of suburbs like Dearborn that use it as a sewage overflow, the city does not get its water from this decimated area but rather much farther up stream where there is not the same environmental devistation. As such the city's water system (which services the sprawl that grew at a fast pace from its inception in the post-war fourties until the early eighties when it stagnated) is among the cleanest and highest quality in the country.
So while Detroit may be known for murder, and failed urban policies (statuses for which we compete with St. Louis for number one), the paradox of this comic is that Detroit is also becoming known as a place where food actually comes from the city and locale instead of being imported from disperate countries like elsewhere in the US.
But the nation does needs its black sheep. Even if the monster you all imagine is not entirely the reality on the ground.