Could Detroit soon resemble the English countryside?

“In a way, think of it as a 21st-Century version of a traditional country pattern,” Mallach said. “You have high-density development on one side of the street and cows on the other, quite literally.”

There’s been a lot of publicity around the idea of “urban farming” Detroit’s vacant land and I think a similar idea to this is probably a logical next step. I also like the fact that these little villages would be connected via some sort of rapid transit lines

Find the presentation from the SDAT group, in PDF form, here.