A new profile on Dave Bing's strategy to shrink Detroit by 30 percent calls the new plan "controversial," but also necessary.
Only 15 of Detroit's 54 neighborhoods are considered viable by Detroit city officials. As the Forbes article points out, geographically, Detroit is so large that Manhattan, San Francisco and Boston could fit inside the city limits.
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"I am not naive," says the soft-spoken 66-year-old Bing. "We are asking
people who have lived here for generations to change. But if we don't
change we'll fail, and I don't want to be part of that failure."
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