A2: Detroit

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Bloomberg News quotes several local sources for a piece on the challenges facing Detroit. June Thomas, a UM professor of urban and regional planning, says the city has to shrink to match its population size, but notes that there’s no vision for how to accomplish this. Ann Arbor developer Fred Beal, who’s planning to do a $50 million conversion of the vacant 34-story David Broderick Tower, asks: “How do you downsize to the right level when there doesn’t seem to be a bottom?” [Source]