Reimagining Detroit as Grow Town

I saw an article about this a while ago. Interesting.

Over the last six decades, the city of Detroit has lost half its population, shrinking from more than 1.85 million people in 1950 to just 912,000 in 2008.
The population plunge has left vacant vast tracts of land that some people in the city want to see used for growing food. Hundreds of community gardens have sprung up throughout the urban core, and several large-scale farms have been proposed within the city limits. Read here, http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/reimagining-detroit-as-grow-town/?hp