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Detroit, America’s poster child for the post-industrial shrinking city, may suffer from a paucity of residents and resources, but it’s a boomtown of urban theory. There is no shortage of clever schemes aimed at repopulating vacant houses and vacant land. Jen Maigret, AIA, and María Arquero de Alarcón, co-founders of Ann Arbor, Mich.–based MAde Studio, have a slightly different perspective: What if you look at Detroit not in isolation, but as a regional system defined by its watershed? How would that change planning? “We are interested in different scales,” Arquero says. “And we are not interested in only focusing on the metropolitan area.”
Publication Date: June 2014