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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