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Www.industrystudies.pitt.edu/chicago10/2010 Papers/Klier - Motor Vehicle Production.pdf. Aire métropolitaine de Detroit. GM Seeks $16.6 Billion More in U.S. Aid. Detroit, frappée par la crise, est peu à peu abandonnée: Exode, travail et fresques. David Brooks - Mondialisation.ca, Le 29 mars 2011 Diego Rivera n’aurait jamais pu imaginé que la ville qui accueille sa grande fresque pour honorer les travailleurs industriels, et surtout ceux du secteur automobile, où les énormes fortunes générées par Ford, Général Motors et Chrysler ont construit celle qui deviendrait la cinquième métropole du pays le plus riche du monde, tout à coup pourrait commencer à s’évanouir sous les yeux de tous, et que sa fresque se convertirait seulement en un regard nostalgique d’un passé de plus en plus lointain.

Detroit, frappée par la crise, est peu à peu abandonnée: Exode, travail et fresques

Fresque de Diego RivieraDétroit se démantèle lentement, laissant ses vastes et luxueuses avenues abandonnées, les énormes magasins qui semblent vides depuis des années ; son autrefois orgueilleux centre est dans l’obscurité, dans ses parcs restent les échos distants des cris de bonheur d’enfants qui ont déjà fui, laissant un mausolée gris au capitalisme industriel. L’exode de Détroit est le plus remarqué, mais ce n’est pas un cas isolé. From Motown to Ghost town: How the once mighty Detroit is heading down a long, slow road to ruin. By Peter Hitchens In Detroit Updated: 21:01 GMT, 9 July 2011 This was once the capital city of capitalism, the great roaring furnace at the very centre of America’s rise to world power and greatness.

From Motown to Ghost town: How the once mighty Detroit is heading down a long, slow road to ruin

Stalin wanted to copy it on the banks of the Volga, but found he couldn’t replicate its spirit – or its cars. Aldous Huxley’s great prophetic novel Brave New World was written on the assumption that the ideas of its founder, Henry Ford, especially that ‘history is bunk’, would one day take over the planet. Ddjc/DDJC2011_print.pdf. A Community Wireless Mesh Prototype in Detroit, MI. In June 2010, the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (DJC) deployed a mesh wireless broadband network in Detroit's North Corktown neighborhood, centered at The Spaulding Court complex on Rosa Parks Boulevard.

A Community Wireless Mesh Prototype in Detroit, MI

The DJC's “Hot Mesh” initiative uses open source mesh wireless technology to provide affordable Internet access through a shared communications infrastructure. This rapidly-deployed, ultra-low-cost network is a real-world example of how to use innovative technologies and business models to extend broadband access and strengthen community ties. The DJC's overarching goals for the Spaulding Court Wireless Network are to: Provide residents with low-cost Internet access;Assess mesh wireless hardware performance in real-world conditions; and,Advance ongoing, citywide digital justice initiatives Summary Assessment Hardware performance exceeded expectations and deployment was fast and problem-free.

Initial Network at a Glance Spaulding Court Overview Organizing and Installation Sustainability. Physics Meets Art in the Cooking Lab. Nathan Myhrvold: Cut your food in half‬‏ Geno bisoni. S*P*A*R*K.fm #12 Detroit Communities (2011-05-20) by reboot.fm. OmniCorpDetroit. This is v1 of the vinewoods, there were a few tweaks to be made, but just absolutely love working with this reclaimed beech.

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S*P*A*R*K.fm #12 Detroit Communities. Benjamin Chodoroff of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (and other initiatives) joins me today - remotely from Detroit - for a conversation.

S*P*A*R*K.fm #12 Detroit Communities

Detroit is known for being a city in economic decline, an icon of the downturn of the auto industry, and for an almost romantic scenery of huge industry ruins. Against this background, people are currently creating new approaches to organize things differently - community-based, independant, and decentralized. Inspired by a strong community gardening movement that already produces lots of groceries for city inhabitants locally, there are many more initiatives coming up. Community-owned wireless infrastructures, structures to support the local music economy, community media projects … are cases in point. Creative communities instead of a creative class. Crep.strasbourg.free.fr/IMG/pdf/Politis-20110210.pdf. Connecting the Dots: What happened in Detroit and why it matters?

This week the Census Bureau released the numbers for the state of Michigan and there are some astonishing revelations in there.

Connecting the Dots: What happened in Detroit and why it matters?

In the last decade the city of Detroit has lost 25% of its population, 61% since the city’s peak in 1950. Detroit’s population is falling faster than the president’s approval rating, and that is saying something. Michigan was also the only state in the country to actually lose people. Everyone knows these numbers are bad, but some are doing back flips trying to avoid the reason behind the decline. Detroit, la ville afro-américaine qui rétrécit, par Allan Popelard et Paul Vannier. «Tu sens ?

Detroit, la ville afro-américaine qui rétrécit, par Allan Popelard et Paul Vannier

Tu sens cette odeur ? Www.jean-pierredurand.com/artfrancaispdf/BIG3.pdf. CONTACT. Allied Media Conference 2011. The Allied Media Conference cultivates strategies for a more just and creative world.

Allied Media Conference 2011

We come together to share tools and tactics for transforming our communities through media-based organizing. The Allied Media Conference advances our visions for a just and creative world. It is a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. Since our founding in 1999, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. The AMC supports learning of all different kinds and at all different levels.

They say it takes a village to raise a child. We believe it takes youth to transform the community.