Woodward Windows is a public art project that has transformed two blocks of vacant storefronts in Downtown Detroit into a curated gallery. Woodward Windows is a project of SCM Studios and 323 East Gallery.
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alliedmedia.org :: Detroit Digital Justice Coalition Awarded $2 Million to Enhance Local Information Economy
Detroit, September 28 2010 – The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (DDJC), in partnership with Michigan State University, is receiving approximately $2 million in federal stimulus funds to support its community organizing and economic development efforts in the Detroit area.
9/8/10: Artists and historians explore and photograph Detroit’s abandoned buildings in hopes of protecting them from the wrecking ball.
Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile. Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of its the most desolate sections and move residents into stronger neighborhoods. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural. Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. The current plan would demolish about 10,000 houses and empty buildings in three years and pump new investment into stronger neighborhoods. In the neighborhoods that would be cleared, the city would offer to relocate residents or buy them out. The city could use tax foreclosure to claim abandoned property and invoke eminent domain for those who refuse to leave, much as cities now do for freeway projects. Mayor Dave Bing, who took office last year, is expected to unveil some details in his state-of-the-city address this month.
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nytimes.com/slideshow :: The Detroit Breakdown, a festival of music from Michigan, took place on Saturday at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.
“There were two through-lines at the Detroit Breakdown, a festival of music from Michigan on Saturday at Lincoln Center Out of Doors. One was the crisp, enterprising gospel-turned-pop that found its biggest audience on Motown Records. The other was a cantankerous streak that runs from Detroit blues through the city’s proto-punk and garage-rock, and arguably into the combative hip-hop of Eminem. Through afternoon and evening shows, craftsmanship and commotion kept recombining. (…)”
nytimes.com Motor City Zooms Into Town for a Visit
