The Urban Restructuring of Metropolitan Detroit
A Cooperative Regional Governance for the City and its Suburbs
de Catherine Tang
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The current state of Detroit’s decline is both the cause and the effect of its region. Population loss, abandonment, unemployment, poverty, crime, and declining city services continue to deteriorate the physical, social, and economic integrity of neighborhoods and populations that remain within the city proper. This decline, however, is exacerbated by the continued and outward sprawl of its suburbs resulting in an unsustainable, inequitable, and inefficient region. Interestingly enough, most of Detroit’s suburbs are not necessarily faring better, but, instead, are increasingly sharing much of the central city’s similar fiscal and social stresses. The usual habits for wasteful sprawl, socioeconomic inequities, and inter-governmental inefficiencies are no longer acceptable. Regional cohesion in metropolitan Detroit is necessary to not only improve the quality of life for residents, businesses, and visitors at hand, but also to strengthen the region’s competitiveness in metropolitan economies afar. To do so, local governments of metropolitan Detroit necessitate a new cooperative regional governance structure that will 1) restructure municipalities at the micro-regional level to equitably redistribute the region’s resources through the use of 2) a regional planning framework that capitalizes on regional anchors as reinforced by 3) public policies of inter-governmental coordination and cooperation at the macro-regional level.
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Catherine Tang Saez is experienced in architecture, urban design, and urban planning. Recognizing the correlation between the form of the built-environment and a society’s well-being, Catherine works to create vibrant, sustainable, and healthy communities through design and policy. Her work, for both private and public clients, is driven by a sense of civic responsibility. As an urban designer, Catherine is experienced in the preparation of community vision plans, streetscape plans, complete street plans, transit-oriented development plans, downtown plans, specific plans, design guidelines, themed entertainment master plans, and office master plans. Academically, Catherine has tackled issues in urban regeneration for cities like Detroit and Chicago, and transportation policy for the City of Boston. Catherine is a Certified Planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). She holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of