Investors see farms as way to grow Detroit
“Farming is how Detroit started,” Score said, “and farming is how Detroit can be saved.”
William Livingstone Mansion
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Remembering the Riots: Detroit 40 Years Later
For many, it was a rebellion; a violent response to years of police brutality, unemployment, unequal schools and housing that fed a feeling of hopelessness. It was a demand for civil rights.
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People Mover
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Detroit Race Riots 1943
Industrial plants provided jobs but not housing. White communities militantly guarded the dividing lines imposed by segregation throughout Detroit’s history. As a result, the city’s 200,000 black residents were cramped into sixty square blocks on the East Side and forced to live under deplorable sanitary conditions. Ironically, the ghetto was called Paradise Valley.
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Pathways of Desire
In the heart of summer, too, it becomes clear that the grid laid down by the ancient planners is now irrelevant. In vacant lots between neighborhoods and the attractions of thoroughfares, bus stops and liquor stores, well-worn paths stretch across hundreds of vacant lots. Gaston Bachelard called these les chemins du désir: pathways of desire. Paths that weren’t designed but eroded casually away by individuals finding the shortest distance between where they are coming from and where they intend to go.
The Heidelberg Project
The elements of the canvas contain recycled materials and found objects, most of which were salvaged from the streets of Detroit. Each work of art is carefully devised to tell a story about current issues plaguing society. As a whole, the HP is symbolic of how many communities in Detroit have become discarded. It asks questions and causes the viewer to think. When you observe the HP, what do you really see? Is it art? Is it junk? Is it telling a story? That’s for you to decide.
