Downtown Development
not yet in paragraph form but these are the ideas
- New Detroit Committee
- “Building in the face of recession”
- Renaissance Center
- “Anti Crime Architecture”
- Anti-community but existing as a larger national trend, not unique to Detroit
- Describing the whole architecture of the Renaissance building to be so that you never have to interact with streets themselves -- “the city is dangerous but you can still come shop”
- “Anti Crime Architecture”
- Partnerships with the business elite
- Revealing a more moderate side of Young, shifting his focus to appease a new audience
- Combination of focus on historically powerful business executives and African American businesses
- Renaissance Center