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Pollen on the rise as Detroit gets reforested
Posted on 8/16/19 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 8/16/19 at 2:54 pm
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Much of Detroit is in ruins. The city spreads over 139 square miles, but about 20 square miles of that — an area just under the size of Manhattan — is vacant.
“What’s happening is, for better or for worse, a lot of Detroit is becoming reforested,” says Daniel Katz, a plant ecologist at ?the University of Michigan School of Public Health. “And so, we have these vacant lots, and first there’s ragweed in them, but then other grasses come in and we get this kind of grassland habitat.”
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Posted on 8/16/19 at 2:56 pm to TejasHorn
Gives concrete jungle new meaning.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 2:57 pm to TejasHorn
Detroit is like a real life version of that show “Life After People” or whatever it’s called.
The Earth is taking it back.
The Earth is taking it back.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 3:00 pm to TejasHorn
A beautiful era of architecture going to waste. Wish they could figure out how to recruit new industry, before all is lost.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 3:15 pm to TejasHorn
Just demolish detroit and surrounding areas,..turn it into a national park.
It would be of better use.
It would be of better use.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 3:23 pm to SEClint
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Just demolish detroit and surrounding areas
Many of the surrounding areas are doing very well, but agree with much of Detroit proper.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 3:40 pm to SEClint
They actually have leveled quite a few city blocks of abandoned housing. They just need to finish the job.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 3:42 pm to TejasHorn
Always wondered if those real estate investors would ever make a return on their investments. At this rate, they'll be 400 years old before that happens.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 3:50 pm to TejasHorn
The need the Demo Diva out there.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 3:57 pm to TejasHorn
Google Street View in Detroit is a rabbit hole. Amazing how much area is being abandoned. Some parts of North Baton Rouge are starting to look like that, but the difference in scale is dramatic.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 4:34 pm to TejasHorn
Well let it go back to forest. The trees absorb co2 which will help with global warming.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 4:54 pm to Cycledude
Anything that isn’t in the redeveloped stretch along the river and up Woodward Ave to Little Caesars Arena is still pretty hopeless, but those areas are actually pretty nice these days.
The rest of the city has systemic issues related to management and demographics that are all too familiar across the country which still make it unlikely to see progress without cultural changes.
The rest of the city has systemic issues related to management and demographics that are all too familiar across the country which still make it unlikely to see progress without cultural changes.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 4:56 pm to RougeDawg
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Posted on 8/16/19 at 4:58 pm to FlyinTiger93
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Wish they could figure out how to recruit new industry, before all is lost.
Detroit is actually coming back despite general outside perception, the problem with much of the architecture is that it is already lost. Much of it was actually gone even before 2008. Most of the "new" is ground-up new.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:01 pm to RougeDawg
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Google Street View in Detroit is a rabbit hole. Amazing how much area is being abandoned.
It is, and it's even more amazing when you see it in person. Three years ago I took a weekend trip there just to check it out (and take in a Detroit Tigers ball game).
The thing is, you have downtown, which is relatively okay and happening, then just outwards from that it's almost all pocked and emptying for miles. And then you have very full (and sometimes really NICE) suburban areas, like the Grosse Pointes, Farmington Hills, Pontiac/Auburn Hills, etc.
But man, those in-town areas-- blocks and blocks and blocks where you have sometimes one or two houses on streets. And they weren't all slums or little cheap houses, a lot of them were nicer two-story 100 year old houses like the ones in uptown New Orleans. Sometimes they were REALLY nice houses, such as these just a few blocks from the Tigers' new ballpark:
You also have quite a few old industrial sites such as the old Packard plant:
As well as on what used to be busy corners and thoroughfares, empty storefronts and overgrown churches:
It looked a lot to me like the Lower 9th Ward does today, but instead of a huge hurricane, Detroit just had societal and socioeconomic change bring about this situation.
The interesting thing is not only have plants (tree, grasses) begun to retake the city, but wildlife as well, Folks have reported seeing deer and foxes in abandoned inner city neighborhoods there.
By the way, it's not as bad or prevalent as in Detroit, but both St. Louis and Cleveland have similar situations with inner city abandonment/clearing that can be seen on Google Earth Street View.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:16 pm to TejasHorn
Who is paying foresters to study this shite?? It's pretty straight forward. This is what happens when you don't cut the grass.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:20 pm to tide06
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without cultural changes.
Maybe we should allow the immigrants to come in.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:35 pm to FlyinTiger93
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beautiful era of architecture going to waste. Wish they could figure out how to recruit BETTER CULCHA before all is lost.
FIFY.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:39 pm to BRich
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The thing is, you have downtown, which is relatively okay and happening, then just outwards from that it's almost all pocked and emptying for miles.
Yep. In almost all directions. I've never seen anything quite like it. Hard to believe that it used to be the wealthiest city in the country.
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