Salon has a nice article about Detroit's urban farming and its potential for even larger-scale urban agriculture. It cites some well-worn but still shocking statistics about the amount of space Detroit has to potentially dedicate to urban agriculture: "an estimated 40 square miles -- more than 25,000 acres -- of vacant property."
As you've probably heard, Detroit is pushing a plan to intentionally shrink itself. Mayor Bing has said that this plan will refocus city residents and services in a smaller area and liberate land to return to prairie.
This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisies
you got it, you got it
[Talking Heads reminder via BoingBoing]
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