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Aire métropolitaine de Detroit
Première carte : Center for Urban Studies, Wayne State University. Seconde carte : Mark Fossett (Center for Urban Studies, Wayne State University) d’après les chiffres du dernier recensement (2000).
General Motors Corp. GM +3.55% and Chrysler LLC told the federal government they may need up to $21.6 billion more combined in bailout loans to put them on the road to recovery, and outlined extensive bankruptcy contingency plans even while continuing to lobby against the option. The recovery plans submitted to the U.S. Treasury would cement GM's fall from the top of the global auto industry to a smaller, more flexible car company relying less on its core U.S. market for sales. Chrysler, meanwhile, appears to be steering itself toward being the North American arm of Fiat SpA.
GM Seeks $16.6 Billion More in U.S. Aid - WSJ.com
Il faut arriver à Detroit par la route, ou le train, pour bien prendre conscience de ce qu’est devenu ce qui fut la quatrième ville des Etats-Unis, la cité de Ford, Chrysler et General Motors (GM). Une fois passée la ville-campus d’Ann Arbor, on traverse des banlieues typiques : d’interminables successions de pavillons donnant de plain-pied sur des pelouses impeccablement tondues, structurées autour d’immenses centres commerciaux – l’étalement urbain poussé à son paroxysme, le paradis des 4 x 4 rutilants. Mais à mesure que se rapproche le centre et que se détachent les tours du Renaissance Center (siège social de GM, auparavant celui de Ford), l’atmosphère change. Des quartiers entiers sont à l’abandon, des centaines de maisons laissées en ruines, leurs jardins envahis par les herbes folles. Le centreville, coupé en deux par l’avenue Woodward, est devenu le décor délabré des années glorieuses.
Detroit lost in transition - Regards.fr
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. Fresque de Diego Riviera
Detroit, frappée par la crise, est peu à peu abandonnée: Exode, travail et fresques
From Motown to Ghost town: How the once mighty Detroit is heading down a long, slow road to ruin | Mail Online
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. 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. He may yet turn out to be right. Certainly, Ford’s desire for a world of vast mass-production factories in which the workers were paid enough to keep the economy going by buying their own products seems to be coming true.
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. 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. Allied Media Projects and other Digital Justice Coalition members provided additional organizing capacity and public outreach to the surrounding community.
A Community Wireless Mesh Prototype in Detroit, MI | NewAmerica.net
To create his megacookbook Modernist Cuisine , Nathan Myhrvold assembled a team of chef-researchers and built the most high tech kitchen ever created—they called it the Cooking Lab. The chefs included (from left) Sam Fahey-Burke, coauthor Chris Young, coauthor Maxime Bilet, Grant Crilly, and Anjana Shanker. (Chef Johnny Zhu is not pictured.)
Physics Meets Art in the Cooking Lab | Magazine | Wired.com
http://reboot.fm/2011/05/20/sparkfm-12-detroit-communities / Benjamin Chodoroff of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (and other initiatives) joins me today - remotely from Detroit - for a conversation. 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.
S*P*A*R*K.fm #12 Detroit Communities (2011-05-20) by reboot.fm on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free
OmniCorpDetroit
OmniCorpDetroit is happy to announce the following two events for February! We’ve been collaborating with organizations like Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, ArtServe Michigan, Emergence Media, Work Department and the international openFrameworks community to organize a blended Discotech / openFrameworks workshop and open conversation / lecture event. You can download a full color PDF poster here , an image for social media here or a letter-sized, black and white flyer here to distribute in your community.
S*P*A*R*K.fm #12 Detroit Communities | Reboot.fm
Benjamin Chodoroff of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (and other initiatives) joins me today - remotely from Detroit - for a conversation. 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.
The Big Three U.S. auto makers have been losing so much money so fast, that it took a $17.4 billion emergency-loan package from the federal government to save the industry from a year-end collapse. Even now, the Big Three remain in danger. The recession, housing crisis, credit crunch and job losses of the past year greatly exacerbate Detroit’s troubles.
The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition
This week the Census Bureau released the numbers for the state of Michigan and there are some astonishing revelations in there. 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.