The Manhattan Airport Foundation (TMAF) was founded to improve the access to air travel for the inhabitants of central New York. Today one passes several hours in traffic jams before reaching one of the distant airports (JFK, Newark and LaGuardia). Why wouldn´t Manhattan, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, deserve a [...]
The Detroit Unreal Estate Agency is an organization that monitors the public plans, personal and artistic initiatives and other events in the derelict area of central Detroit. It has American and Dutch integrants and sponsoring. It features many rundown buildings and vacant lots, role model neighborhoods of modernist planning, urban poetry and ‘un’real estate offered [...]
In the industrial and technological city of São José dos Campos, State of São Paulo, Brazil, there is a neighborhood called Jardim Nova Detroit. Like the ‘old’ Detroit, Nova Detroit is inhabited by industrial workers of the General Motors plant nextdoor. The difference is, even with the late automobile crisis, that ‘old’ Detroit has been [...]
