Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.
Jeffrey EugenidesTags: money paris rome culture design london urban-planning detroit
Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
Jane JacobsTags: urban-planning detroit 204
If it weren't for the Chicagos and Detroits and Toledos, the terrible things would spread out across the whole country and make trouble for everybody else. Such places were collectors of badness in the way hospitals were collectors of the sick and damaged.
Stephen DobynsAnd I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people, I learned, but as the common enemy of humanity and of civilisation, and has to be fought against very tenaciously for that reason, most especially in its current, most virulent form of Islamic Jihad. Daniel Pearl's revolting murderer was educated at the London School of Economics. Our Christmas bomber over Detroit was from a neighboring London college, the chair of the Islamic Students' Society. Many pogroms against Jewish people are being reported from all over Europe today as I'm talking, and we can only expect this to get worse, and we must make sure our own defenses are not neglected. Our task is to call this filthy thing, this plague, this—this pest, by its right name; to make unceasing resistance to it, knowing all the time that it's probably ultimately ineradicable, and bearing in mind that its hatred towards us is a compliment, and resolving (some of the time, at any rate) to do a bit more to deserve it. Thank you.
Christopher HitchensTags: murder war tyranny christmas civilisation fascism islam racism jews europe london speeches jihad detroit pogroms ahmed-omar-saeed-sheikh anti-semitism daniel-pearl northwest-airlines-flight-253 umar-farouk-abdulmutallab
I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, "Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet.
Gabriel RheaumeTags: addiction suicide spirituality religious surreal detroit
in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
The Second American Revolution.
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There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living, whose reason for being might be geographical but whose growth is based on industry, jobs. Detroit has its natural attractions: lakes all over the place, an abundance of trees and four distinct seasons for those who like variety in their weather, everything but hurricanes and earth-quakes. But it’s never been the kind of city people visit and fall in love with because of its charm or think, gee, wouldn’t this be a nice place to live.
Elmore LeonardTags: beauty nature industry working cities weather jobs michigan detroit
If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: speech martin-luther-king detroit
It’s hard not to empathize with the mayor’s anger, given the injustices he’d suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.
Edward L. GlaeserTags: wisdom injustice anger policy detroit coleman-young
Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.
Charlie LeDuffTags: humor literature cities detroit
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