This week's linked in...

My summer has been busier than I expected, so I'm just catching up now with some reading.



I've had a long fascination with Detroit, so this caught my eye. Dejan Sudjic writes about Detroit for the BBC, taking stock of the city's attempt to refill the hole in the donut that has been the city morphology since the 1960s. The missing component? How is the city providing for those baby boomers and young professionals when they move into the post-industrial lofts? The public space plans should be bolstered with an injection of small business/entrepreurship initiatives, so that the local downtown economy becomes stimulated to fulfill the needs and desires of those new downtown residents. Spur on businesses that include everything from dining, shopping to dry-cleaning and food shopping. Tie that in with the public space plan.



About twice a year we go down to Virginia's Eastern Shore (a little peninsula dangling from Maryland and going to Virginia that embraces the Chesapeake Bay), going through this Maryland area that was highlighted by the Baltimore Sun. The sleepy little towns are starting to get a rude awakening with all the development going on.