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Welcome to the Future

Who would have thought Detroit would be the city leading America to the post-Peak oil, mega-capitalist, industrial age?

Detroit is embarking on a plan that would reduce the size of the city and restore its blighted core to a greener, more rural landscape that more closely resembles the area before the Age of Oil. Steel and concrete would be replaced with fruit trees and veggie gardens.

“Things that were unthinkable are now becoming thinkable,” said James W. Hughes, dean of the School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, who is among the urban experts watching the experiment with interest. “There is now a realization that past glories are never going to be recaptured. Some people probably don’t accept that, but that is the reality.”

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