Rotterdam!

The Flint and Detroit Team arrived in Rotterdam to being immersed in preparing our presentations representing our cities.  Preparing our ‘teaser’ power point presentations about our immediate region in Michigan presents challenges in relating to cities in Brazil, South Africa, India, England and Holland. In the Midwest we are not experiencing development pressures  but instead we are in the wake of post industrial decline. We have a fragmented community along race and geographic lines in terms of rise of the suburbs as well as our cultural decline.

Flint spent a hundred years poisoning our water, soil and air and trying to approach industrialization. The maps we show of our current situation show where population has shifted. There is a need to encourage creativity and acknowledge where population left. The recreation of a community is developing under the pressure of decline.   These are the questions that we are considering as communities………..