I was born in Detroit and I follow the city pretty closely. The mayor there recruited a city planner, Maurice Cox, who has been getting all sorts of favorable press.

The broken down state of the city's neighborhoods offers a unique opportunity to redesign them. Things like creating a walking path between two small colleges and creating biking paths from old rail lines. Cox wants to enable each neighborhood to have basic services within a twenty minute walk.

http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/columnists/2016/12...