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Reimagining Detroit—creative reuse and urban farms

KCBX | By Tom Wilmer
Published October 31, 2017 at 4:48 AM PDT
Detroit graffiti art at Farmers Market neighborhood
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At the conclusion of WWII Detroit, Michigan claimed than 2.1 million citizens, today there are less than 700,000. Thousands of single-family houses have disappeared from the landscape--some city blocks have less than three houses standing— a sobering, mostly greenscape landscape. Join Kelly Kavanaugh, urban activist and owner of Wheelhouse Detroit Bikeshop as she talks about reinventing Detroit and some of the obstacles created by an infusion of investors from across the country.

Detroit neighborhood ripe for rebirth
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Detroit neighborhood ripe for rebirth
Wheelhouse Detroit Bike Shop at Rivertown
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Wheelhouse Detroit Bike Shop at Rivertown
Detroit Riverfront former warehouse neighborhood rejuvenation
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Detroit Riverfront former warehouse neighborhood rejuvenation

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Tom Wilmer
Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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