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What: "This is not my idea. This is Davidde's. Like Paris circa 1921*, Detroit looks totally bombed out and destroyed. The grandiose train station is now a cracking shell somewhere between "structure" and "rubble." And like Paris, which was an aristocratic playground, Detroit used to be the richest city in America."

Writer: Davidde

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Date: Jun 9 2012 4:48 PM

What: Reasons: Beater Cadillacs on every street, Pan handlers,Illegal drug trade, and etc.

Writer: Not Stated

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Date: Jun 9 2012 4:58 PM

What: "Detroit is like a wonderful old house ... full of nooks and crannies just waiting to be explored. Those who take the time to investigate are usually pleasantly surprised."

Writer: Not Stated

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Date: Jun 9 2012 4:58 PM

What: "Detroit is like Brooklyn in the nineties, filled with nothing but excited, young creatives seeking cheap rent to work on their art. Oh, and like, a ton of underprivileged minorities."

Writer: Henry Goldman

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:00 PM

What: "Detroit is like General Motors.........the unions suck up all the money, they go broke, and then wait for the govt bail-out."

Writer: Someone on Yahoo named Peter

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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated

Date: Jun 9 2012 5:03 PM

What: "Detroit is like Chicago; a city with few geographic constraints around it, which means that historically there's always been a tendency for sprawl."

Writer: grumpy realist

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:05 PM

What: "I've said before that loving Detroit is like having a sister on drugs. You love her, you want the best for her and you've seen those glimmers of what she could be if she would just make some difficult, but important changes. You feel powerless to help, but you still feel like there is something you can still do. You just don't know what."

Writer: Michael Foley

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:06 PM

What: "Detroit is like a big blank canvas with so many vacant lots and buildings. Organize artists to work on community spaces, gardens, safe and creative places that will draw people in and create some positive attention!"

Writer: Solongmaryann

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:09 PM

What: "Detroit is like Somalia," says Adolph Mongo, a longtime political consultant and Detroit native who served two previous mayors, including recently ousted Kwame Kilpatrick. "There is no central government. We got pirates controlling the city."

Writer: Adolph Mongo

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:13 PM

What: "Detroit is like the Titanic.All the white people left on the life boats.All thats left is a rusty old wreck."

Writer: Not Stated

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:14 PM

What: "Detroit is like a city from a parallel universe that was hit by an Armageddon, with a colossal train station and garish mansions sitting in various stages of decay with no one there to keep people from trespassing. Artists and photographers flock to the city because they can basically do anything they want in a huge metropolis that is basically abandoned."

Writer: Don R. Lewis

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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated

Date: Jun 9 2012 5:18 PM

What: "Detroit is like a phoenix rising. Over the next five years, a number of major construction projects currently on the drawing board have the capacity to reshape the physical and economic landscape of this city. Among them, the New International Trade Crossing (NITC), the Detroit Intermodal Freight Terminal (DIFT), and the Woodward Light Rail line-just to name a few."

Writer: LORI ELLA MILLER

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:20 PM

What: "Detroit is like your most memorable ex-girlfriends--sexy, smart, and soulful but conversely melancholy, violent, and loaded with spooky empty spaces where things used to be. Though you recognize the inherent disfunction, you want more - coming back over and over again and even dreaming of one day moving in."

Writer: Jonathan Toubin

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:23 PM

What: "Detroit is like a doughnut, if you're in the hole, you're NOT safe!"

Writer: creepy car-dealer

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:24 PM

What: "Detroit is like an award-winning actor who got hooked on drugs and is waiting for the next big script to make a comeback."

Writer: Not Stated

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:30 PM

What: "Detroit is like the Betty White of cities right now," says Robert Thompson, a television and popular culture professor at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications."

Writer: Robert Thompson

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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated

Date: Jun 9 2012 5:32 PM

What: "The striking contrast between adjacent poverty and wealth, between urban blight and urban luxury is probably unique in the US. As long as this abnormality exists, no urban renewal project will actually succeed. As I said - Detroit is like a person in coma, surrounded by people, having the party of their lives."

Writer: bLogHouse

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:34 PM

What: "The analogy that I hear the most often about Detroit--and I think it's pretty good--is that Detroit is like Berlin at the end of World War II, which it's just a wreck, it's a bombed-out shell. What do we do with it and what happens when you do?..." HD: ... you divide its into three sectors and build a wall down the middle.

Writer: Not Stated

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:36 PM

What: "Detroit is like eastern Europe, only without the decaying Stalinist architecture. And like eastern Europe, Detroit residents are fleeing elsewhere."

Writer: Not Stated

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:39 PM

What: "Detroit is like seeing 'Atlas Shrugged' in real life. The unions drove away the business, and the blacks drove away the whites. So basically all the productive people left, and now the only professionals left are the criminals. Bing is a good mayor, but it's too little too late. Only Robocop can save Detroit now."

Writer: DilipJ

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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:40 PM