Bulldozing the cities won't do any good unless you have a real plan for what the land will be used for afterwards. That's the problem with Detroit NOW: It's just sitting there rotting.

There were some nuts a few years back who wanted to turn big swaths of Detroit into pasture land, but theirs was not a vision tethered to the real world.

Detroit is so polluted it is illegal to connect housing to groundwater. Think it'll farm well?