NYT has set writers on to the task of re-imagining the economies of their respective cities. My fave was the one on Detroit. The best quote:

“Biking in the D is the transportation equivalent of the Slow Food movement, offering a perspective that’s completely lost to those zooming in on the Lodge Freeway and I-75, those great superhighways that, once upon a time in the name of progress, were sliced deep into the heart of the city only to bleed it dry.”

Indeed. The city built by the deathmobile, killed by the deathmobile. (Not to be self-referential or anything!)

[Thanks, Dan, for sending along that link to the NYT piece on Detroit.]