The name is absent

GOVERNANCE DISLOCATION

Encompassed in the city limits, Detroit is nearly 140 square miles, which is setup
on the Jeffersonian 1 mile by 1 mile grid. That grid shifts abruptly in the south
east to accommodate the strait which separates Detroit from Windsor and the US
from Canada.

early Territorialization

140 sq miles

site shift

Yet the remarkable impetus for the city's organization stems not from historical
territorialization but from the local governments annual injection of funds:

MORE SPENDING ON HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE THAN

Communityand housing development

This manifest in an favored highway system that ruthlessly carves the city into iso-
lated and forgotten islands. The experience of Detroit is tailored around these
byways, and if one is to stray, he∕she is Commonlythrust into a frantic scramble to
return to its advertised sanctity. Here lies the problem. How can the sequester
urban fabric be reframed, revived, and reconnected?

RESULTING RESIDUE

carving highways

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