Rebecca Solnit sees the future of sustainable cities arising organically from the ruins of Detroit.

The future, at least the sustainable one, the one in which we will survive, isn’t going to be invented by people who are happily surrendering selective bits and pieces of environmentally unsound privilege. It’s going to be made by those who had all that taken away from them or never had it in the first place.

Read her article, Detroit Arcadia, in the July issue of Hapers. (that link only works if you’re a subscriber to Harpers)

Posted on Saturday, June 23rd, 2007. Filed under Random.
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