PowerPoint PresentationSlide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Bijou BridgeportRedevelopment project in downtown Bridgeport Detroit’s Creative PotentialRichard Florida talking about the hopes for Detroit becoming a creative hubA Tribute to Ruins Irks DetroitArtist Camilo Jose Vergara suggests turning downtown Detroit into a theme park of industrial ruins“Take the case of urban poverty. Scholars and citizens don’t agree on its causes, nature, or cure…. It follows that people of good will may not agree on how to attack poverty. If, for instance, a mayor sees the root problem as a lack of money, she may fight for government funds. Or mayors may offer incentives to multinational corporations to settle in their jurisdictions, arguing that these businesses will provide jobs and a bigger tax base for the community. But if mayors define poverty as being rooted in the unequal distribution of existing resources, they will pursue very different policies—ones aimed at changing institutional structures and redistributing wealth. If citizens believe that poverty and despair are products of a government-sponsored ghetto culture, they will try to protest. In sum, there is no one right way to define an urban or suburban issue…. However, how people define a problem determines how they try to solve it. Or ignore it. (Phillips, xxiii-xxiv).Acquaintance with the City (subjective understanding)Firsthand experience with the city: qualitative research, observation. Usually associated with sociology and anthropology. Relies on nuance, rich detail, specificity. Often relies on the senses: what the observer sees, hears, feels. Can also draw from cultural representations: films we’ve watched, news media, etc.Knowledge about the city (objective understanding)Abstract thought, based in logic rather than intuition. Linear, rational, often drawing from quantitative methods. Statistics, data-driven mapping, economic models.The Uncertainty PrincipleWe can’t eliminate ourselves from what we observe; and we can’t observe reality without changing it. Therefore, everyone must have a point of view, and strictly, nothing is purely subjective or objective.“Detroit and Bridgeport are quite similar in that both in their height were industrial cities. With a lack of industrial success as of recent, both have fallen into decay. I myself am quite familiar with Bridgeport in particular. I live a short distance from Bridgeport, and my boyfriend lives on the town line just on the other side of Bridgeport in Trumbull. We have experienced first hand the ravages that economic downturn and lack of financial success have done to the city of Bridgeport. As the documentary says, crime is rife in the area.”“It is not difficult to find many similarities between Detropia and The Great Divide. Specifically, I would like to highlight the parallels between abandonment of manufacturing and the Gini Index mentioned in The great Divide…. The distribution between the poor and the rich in one area was an interesting statistic brought up in The Great Divide, which relates to Detroit, Bridgeport, and Bangkok. This distribution is known as the Gini Index. The separation between the very poor in Bridgeport and the very rich in Fairfield County has a very wide gap similar to the poor community in Bangkok and “Hi-So” rich