Detroit’s downtown Grand Circus Park is a campground. It’s the temporary campground for Occupy Detroit, a spinoff of the national protest started on Wall Street in New York City about a month ago. The Occupy movement is a demonstration against corporate greed, home ownership foreclosures and social injustice. Riding my bike through Detroit’s makeshift site [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Signs in a Downtown Detroit Campsite
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Commuting to the Burbs
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Those that read this blog on a regular basis know that I’m an urban bike rider. I’ve never ridden in any of Detroit’s suburbs beyond 8-mile Road. I’ve never been to the 13 area Metroparks or on any of the Michigan Trails or Greenways. It’s not that I have anything against those places; it’s just [...]
Detroit Through a Frame
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Many of Detroit’s neighborhoods have seen better days. With so many people migrating to the suburbs and beyond over the past 50 plus years, urban blight has slowly crept in. Unfortunately, many of the vacated residential structures have been stripped of windows, pipes, bricks and other structural elements and eventually set on fire. The mass [...]
Poor Old Delray
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Poor old Delray has seen better days. At its peak in the 1930s, the Delray neighborhood of Southwest Detroit numbered over 23,000 residents, and pictures from that era show vibrancy and activity that is only imaginable today. Currently, that same neighborhood has about 2,700 residents, and many of the once beautiful Art Deco commercial buildings [...]
