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more about #newyorktimes more comments → skierpage: The New York Times is reporting on New Geography's ideas. That talks about other kinds of urban renewal, you should read it sometime. Ben, what's yo... more » ppiddy: Look, I love Detroit. I'm an urban planner in SE Michigan, fer chrissakes, so I'm bound by professional ethics to say I love it....but it IS a failed... more » Mobius: NYT at least should have considered popular opinion, I mean, we youngsters aren't gonna take a liking to their publication if Eminem ain't rappin' 'bo... more » theeastbaykid: Nicely done piece. As a native Californian with lots of family in the Detroit area, I have a combination of perspectives--while Detroit is undeniably ... more » LS1RX7owen: now I see were you're coming from, maybe Utica should be demo'd instead. #detroit more » powermatic: I agree with you concerning the zero-viability equation of any full scale, corp0rate-level farming in reclaimed Urban Areas (I spent many a summer at ... more » d3c509b aka Steve: Let me say, that I am also a Detroiter. Some Detroiters (including one of the guys from Slows BBQ, which is amazing) put this together. It pushe... more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Great piece, Ben. Thanks for wrecking all of our zombie apocalypse/Mad Max fantasies about Detroit. You're right that the article is off base. But ... more » weatherman: Good piece, Ben, but I think you're oversimplifying the New Geography Article for the sake of vilifying the Times. In fact, if you read that article t... more » EdificeComplex: Did anyone follow the links to the complete NewGeography article? Renn is not advocating the complete razing of the city of Detroit. It's pointed out... more » dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!: That is painfully ignorant. As you said, urban farming basically means gardening, and it's not a bad thing, just taking unused lots and turning it int... more » bzr: Great article, Ben. I can really feel the resentment between the lines from years of witnessing smug Left-Coast elites advocating something they don't... more » SGTalon: I live here in Detroit. There are large areas of the city that are completely vacant land. I am talking about entire neighborhoods that are giant fiel... more » Alfisted: Such hypocrisy... if Times Square were the Times Square of the '70s, would they recommend tilling it up for corn and beans? #detroit more » VeeArrrSix: Why does anyone still care what the NYT thinks? That's why we all hang out here... the fishwraps lost their soul a long long time ago. #detroit more » -
#rants
NYT Encourages Demolition Of Detroit
The latest idea-that's-been-around-for-a-decade-and-the-media-is-just-discovering is urban farming, specifically urban farming in Detroit. The New York Times has picked up the story and dutifully regurgitated it without a half-second of rational thought, advocating the wholesale leveling of the "failed city" of Detroit. More » -
#autouninformed
Insult to injury: wanna bet that new Ford was made in Mexico? [NYT]
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#carpocalypse
NYT Asks Jalopnik If GM Will Ever Go AC/DC
The front page of today's New York Times business section has an excellent feature taking an in-depth look at post-bankruptcy GM. Bonus #1? An insider-y Ward Sutton cartoon. Bonus #2? Two quotes from our very own Ray Wert! More » -
#potholes
NYT Freakonomics Blog Hates American... Asphalt
The Freakonomics blog over at the NYT has launched a contest looking for the best homage to the worst stretches of road in America. Maybe they should start with these Detroit potholes, here or even New York's exploding streets. [NYT] -
#carpocalypse
Is Selling Hummer Moral? Is Killing The New York Times?
The New York Times Ethicist blog asks today whether GM selling Hummer is the right thing to do. They posit the honorable thing should be to kill it. Kind of like newspapers. More » -
#detroitautoshow
New York Times Loves The Jalopnik Mobile Command Center
America's newspaper printing all the news that's fit to print highlights the Jalopnik Mobile Command Center, America's most fit electric-powered auto-journo-mobile. [New York Times] -
#carpocalypsenow
NYT Tips Hat To Jalopnik On "Carpocalypse," Chrysler's Woeful Product Future
In-crowd kids already knew "Carpocalypse" was the hip term for the current state of the domestic automotive industry. Now, even the NYT's using it. But they're not the only ones. Feeling self-referential? You betcha.
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#madlibs
While New York Slept: A Mad Lib NYT Op-Ed By Friedman Thomas
Thomas Friedman's obscenely transparent attempt to sell books with yet another rant against "Detroit" has pushed us to ask our own Friedman Thomas to respond with a Mad Lib rant of his own.
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#transmissions
NYT Wheels Blog Examines The Shift Away From Shifting
It's always been our contention that the point when automatic transmission vehicles began to outsell manual transmission vehicles here in the United States was the same point 'merican drivers became less concerned about the trip and more about the destination. Looks like the Wheels blog over at the New York Times has just come to the same conclusion. Travel with them on their journey towards enlightenment. We've already seen how it plays out. [NYT Wheels]
