Is it TIME to shrink this city?

The journalists on the ground from TIME's Assignment Detroit have written a thesis statement of sorts -- or maybe it's appropriate to call this article on re-sizing the Motor City a call to action. According to the article, TIME's reporters combined observations and ideas from hundreds of interviews conducted in the city to create a blueprint for Bing's proposed city-wide redevelopment. While many of their recommendations are spot-on, it's these writers' hopeful view of Detroit, as seen from a weekend at Eastern Market, that we found so endearing.

Excerpt:

Nearly 40,000 people from throughout the metropolitan area flock to the market for the best produce from the Midwestern countryside, and also for the very urban experience of being part of a multifarious, multigenerational and multicolored crowd. The Eastern Market vibe is evident, too, on those summer nights when the Tigers game at Comerica Park ends at around the same time as the soul act across the street at the Fox Theatre and the last notes of La Bohème die out around the corner at the Detroit Opera House. As the three crowds swirl together on the rim of Grand Circus Park, you'd think you're in a version of the ideal 21st century city.

Read the whole article here.