Vacant Packard Motor Car Company plant in Detroit

4 Toward a Conceptual Framework for Re-engineering Shrinking Cities 

Recognizing that the relationship between population and network capacity is often imprecise, networks are designed to capacity levels largely determined by population and economic activity, whether defined as rush hour vehicle traffic, sewerage flows, or school enrollment. As population and jobs drop, networks typically develop excess capacity, visible in empty streets or empty school buildings (Moss 2008). From 2005 to 2008, Detroit public school enrollment dropped by 35,000. ° In similar vein, a bicyclist recently wrote, one night a little over a year ago, crossing Woodward Avenue, I crashed my bicycle. As I flew head over heels across Detroit s 

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Fig. 103.8 Vacant Packard Motor Car Company plant in Detroit. (Courtesy of Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative)...

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