Detroit: City on the Move (1965)

★★★★★ · Big City Safe City 1965 · JSBejma · 2011-11-27

That year at the age of 13 1/2 I began taking 3 city buses (not school busses) each way to a magnet (public) high school downtown with 37 curriculae....in the red light district, no less; across from the Masonic Temple and after school hung out downtown having ciggies and coffee with my friends and walked though the largest department store in the world to get my bus home. I think once, somebody got roughed up for their bus fare. But heck, I cant think of a city that size you could do that today except maybe somewhere in Europe or Canada - or maybe Singapore. There are some interesting…

★★★★★ · Funny Film · jazzbo13 · 2009-02-22

It's a real pity that all that culture is now wasted on a populace that considers a bucket of chicken, a couple of 40's and a Snoop Dog CD "high art".

★★★★★ · A Scribble Folly · chaz66 · 2009-03-13

Mr. "Scribble", Interestingly you mention "white history" as a culprit......What about "BET" television? Your tone and being specific to solely one side is equally as amusing and does nothing but contribute to what you criticize.

★★★★ · "Modernity," "Progress," and Other Disastrous Concepts · Charles_G · 2008-08-18

"A new renaissance is changing the face of the city. This renaissance, seen everywhere, is the direct result of considered planning ... [planners are] creating a new concept of urban efficiency." -Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh This video provides a neat and concise overview of the catastrophically destructive city-planning of the postwar era, visited not only upon Detroit but upon almost every major American city. This vision for planning centered around several key components: the subservience of the city to the needs of the automobile, the rejection of fine-grained urban fabric in favor of…

★★★★ · The Folly of Urban Planning · Scribble · 2008-08-19

Dear Mr or Ms. Smythology I had a quick visit to the amusing link you provided in your review (white-history), it amazes me that despite the mountains of evidence provided by science to the contrary, there are still those who insist on separating humanity into self-emerged "races" rather than recognizing the fact that we all share a common ancestry, directly traceable to the African continent. Whatever differences we have are a result of cultural development that occurred in separation, this isolation has virtually disappeared in the age of globalization, but it will take some time before we…

★★★★ · Not quite the Detroit I remembered... · DSKruse · 2003-03-10

Boy, aren't we glad that the 1968 Olympics were not held in Detroit, especially after the riots of '67?! I can just picture those National Guard helicopters hovering overhead while shielded cops with attack dogs and fire hoses lined up around each of the sporting venues. And if the sculling events were held on the Rouge River, the contestants would have to navigate around the beer cans, dead carp, and sewage spewed out by the factories and mills. I always felt sorry for the people of Windsor, who typically were downwind from the polluting factories. Detroit was "a city on the move" at that…