A city deserves a proper intoduction not a list of complaints or an anti overdwelling slant against the particular place not a list of agenda oriented conclusory statements about ones opinions and feelings against the American auto industry and re analyasis of items already discussed in the body of the article Detroit s auto companies are highly successful companies which invest more in themselves than practially any companies in the US and have many of the world s most talented people working for them they not only make cars and finance them but compete against governments on three continents and whose governments pay for the benefits for their citizens that are paid for by Detroit automakers in the US Detroit automkers are showing decade over decade volume gains irrespective of market share they are selling millions more than they sold in prior decades They are investing in new plants and in new technologies The challeges are related primarly to pension and benefit issues and not other reasons typically parroted by big media Any particular city does not deserve inuendos It appears that Detroit s population has somewhat stabilized and several other cities have seen roughly equivalent decreases in the past two decades Conclusory discussions of population trends are not appropriate for the introduction as they are dubious many of those choosing to move into the city and its redeveloped housing now are more affluent showing the city is attractive to new arrivals who see it as a good investment this is a positive trend not a negative one for city planners The city is obviously succeeding street by street from the Northwest to Downtown to Midtown and gradually to other areas Anyone making a visit to Detroit for an event recently has seen large impressive crowds of suburbanites willing to spend lots of money on Detroit s redeveloped areas There is very high level of enthusiasm and excitement present in Detroit s tourist areas that wasn t there in past decades which is equivalant to some of the most visited cities Therefore the types of statements that convey in the readers mind a trend toward decline are highly inaccurate Detroit s automakers are similarly making great products implementing bold new plans The fact that Detroit has a balanced budget and a more streamlined government shows that the city itself has decisive leadership worthy or praise which a change from the criticism of city s leadership in the the 1970s and 1980s The city has invested very smartly in itself and appears to have created very postive trend not merely some success but very succussful in an impressive way It has added many new streetlights streetscape facilitated redevlopment of lofts and condominiums There have been many feature stories on the leadership of Dennis Archer and now Kwame Kilpatrick Sure there is much more to do but what has been done is very impressive Compared to other cities Detroit has a magnificent historic district that is obviously growing from the inside out The State has invested heavily in remaking Detroit s freeway system The next major development challenges include revitalizing Michigan Central Station Michigan Avenue and the Vernor Juction area to name a few Detroit s neighborhoods have many older structures that are worth saving Poor neighborhoods should not be stereotyped as bad neigbhorhoods Schools such as Cass Technical school illustrate Detroit s committment The present article on Detroit is being modest it doesn t nearly describe its postives Moreover many of those moving into Detroit are affluent In essence Detroit automakers outcompete the foreign competitition and still pay for their own way There is not place for globalists perjoritives or elitist feelings about poor people and working class americans in the Detroit intro Read some of the other city introductions Detroit should be treated at least as well as these Detroit bashing haggling about issues adding conclusory digs one liners is not really appropriate for the introduction to this or any city