In an attempt to save Detroit from decay, the city’s mayor proposes to shrink the city, moving residents on the outskirts into the centre of the city and transforming some of the outer areas into agricultural land.
Detroit is 80% food desert (meaning that residents have to travel at least twice as far to buy healthy food than they do to buy junk food). More info in this interesting article by Mark Dowie, including:
“There is such a dire shortage of protein in the city that Glemie Dean Beasley, a seventy-year-old retired truck driver, is able to augment his Social Security by selling raccoon carcasses (twelve dollars a piece, serves a family of four) from animals he has treed and shot at undisclosed hunting grounds around the city. Pelts are ten dollars each.”
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Christian Nally said,
March 16, 2010 @ 10:17 am
Interesting development!
Related: if Galiano Island suddenly lost the Market, would it too be a food desert?