Derelict, eye-sore – any other associated environmental problems?

Heavy metal contamination of water supplies and soils due to runoff from abandonded factory sites

Red sludge - heavy metal contaminated mud deposited after floods

2-ringed plover (kill-deer) – on Ford’s green roof

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What other sustainable use is Detroit ‘ripe’ for?

Think Havana!

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Why is Detroit great for this?

• space (why?)• saves money (lots of unemployed)

• people with time (lots of unemployed)

• obesity issues• government subsidies (why?)

Any barriers / problems to overcome?

• contamination (there are ways...)

• lethargy / de-motivation etc.• taste issues? (if been brought up on McDs etc...)

• Wal-mart etc not so keen?

Grimsby?!

What environmental pros and cons are there simply from this population decline? (due to deindustrialisation)

Deindustrialisation can be positive for the local environment – eg in Detroit.

But these things are still being made – just somewhere else (where?) – and with even fewer environmental controls, generally – global shift has just changed the location of the factories and the pollution – not reduced it [more likely increased it as there is MORE being made (for the growing middle classes) as well as with fewer controls] - AND there is the added pollution from transporting the goods all over the world...