This is really exciting new! I am now living in Montreal, and I want to come back home and help rebuild the city great! I use to live in the Eastern Market on Winder Street. Wow, the before and after pictures of the houses, and businesses are amazing, the dequindre lane bike path, I will dream of riding my bike and rollerblade on that path, I have something to visualize. I'm excited, indeed great to watch.
I think his list is a good try, but it falls far short of what's possible for Detroit with a little bit of out-of-the-box thinking. Rather than "attracting businesses and jobs", CREATE futuristic businesses and jobs. Rather than pay $88 million to contractors for "blight removal", create local co-ops manned by locals to rebuild where there currently is "blight". Rather than "develop" advantages, tap into advantages that are already here. Rather than work within the same old parameters that have always been relied on, establish new ones - use a local currency, local co-ops, re-invent the school system with an imaginative, best-ideas design no one has seen before, make Detroit a free-energy city, etc. Detroit could be THE future city that the entire US needs to have as a positive example. I'd love to have a sit-down session with Mr. Duggan to show what's possible.
I was thinking more along the lines of a futuristic car company that is run as a cooperative business and that utilizes a dual currency model to benefit Detroit financially and the rest of the world with low cost high quality cutting edge vehicles, or a different co-op business that focuses on the final frontier. How can Detroit change the world and Detroit at the same time towards a designed future?
I understand what you're going for but this has to be realistic and possible to get done. And most of what you said is very vague. Its a good idea but I ask how? And like what?
There are a number of ways to accomplish it, some a bit easier than others. My preferred option is to establish a supplementary "city currency" or local currency that is spendable only within city limits or with a designated boundary line (perhaps at a county level), designed to encourage high velocity local trade. There have been 2 or 3 small attempts at local currencies, but nothing full scale - Detroit Dollars & Detroit Cheers and a Detroit Scrip at one point. There even was a Bank of Detroit at one point as I understand it, which leads to another idea which is a public Bank of Detroit (see public banking). Another is what I said above, which is to establish cooperative businesses that benefit locals rather than corporations in other states or countries. This would bring resources to the city, and if this is combined with the city currency there would be almost no limit to how much the city can improve. The key to any of it is to break free from the status quo approach which is far too dependent on external influences including the national economy and no one has even scratched the surface of what's possible. I post a lot of options to a facebook page called Detroit Transformation Project, but the best would be if the city government could take these ideas and run with them and promote them and get the population involved.
I like what I hear! It gives me hope for our city and the children!
This is really exciting new! I am now living in Montreal, and I want to come back home and help rebuild the city great! I use to live in the Eastern Market on Winder Street. Wow, the before and after pictures of the houses, and businesses are amazing, the dequindre lane bike path, I will dream of riding my bike and rollerblade on that path, I have something to visualize. I'm excited, indeed great to watch.
YAY Detroit This is a great watch!
Incredible speech
how inspirational!!!!
Tale dem dis............
You Shall Reap What You Sow !!!!!!!!!!!!
I think his list is a good try, but it falls far short of what's possible for Detroit with a little bit of out-of-the-box thinking.
Rather than "attracting businesses and jobs", CREATE futuristic businesses and jobs.
Rather than pay $88 million to contractors for "blight removal", create local co-ops manned by locals to rebuild where there currently is "blight".
Rather than "develop" advantages, tap into advantages that are already here.
Rather than work within the same old parameters that have always been relied on, establish new ones - use a local currency, local co-ops, re-invent the school system with an imaginative, best-ideas design no one has seen before, make Detroit a free-energy city, etc. Detroit could be THE future city that the entire US needs to have as a positive example.
I'd love to have a sit-down session with Mr. Duggan to show what's possible.
Create new industries like FINTECH
I was thinking more along the lines of a futuristic car company that is run as a cooperative business and that utilizes a dual currency model to benefit Detroit financially and the rest of the world with low cost high quality cutting edge vehicles, or a different co-op business that focuses on the final frontier. How can Detroit change the world and Detroit at the same time towards a designed future?
I understand what you're going for but this has to be realistic and possible to get done. And most of what you said is very vague. Its a good idea but I ask how? And like what?
There are a number of ways to accomplish it, some a bit easier than others. My preferred option is to establish a supplementary "city currency" or local currency that is spendable only within city limits or with a designated boundary line (perhaps at a county level), designed to encourage high velocity local trade. There have been 2 or 3 small attempts at local currencies, but nothing full scale - Detroit Dollars & Detroit Cheers and a Detroit Scrip at one point. There even was a Bank of Detroit at one point as I understand it, which leads to another idea which is a public Bank of Detroit (see public banking).
Another is what I said above, which is to establish cooperative businesses that benefit locals rather than corporations in other states or countries. This would bring resources to the city, and if this is combined with the city currency there would be almost no limit to how much the city can improve.
The key to any of it is to break free from the status quo approach which is far too dependent on external influences including the national economy and no one has even scratched the surface of what's possible. I post a lot of options to a facebook page called Detroit Transformation Project, but the best would be if the city government could take these ideas and run with them and promote them and get the population involved.