Cucumbers for the ghost town.

Return to agriculture and the Arts: In search of creative solutions to the economic crisis has km42-Jörg Pfeiffer reporter in Detroit two activist groups discovered. With wit and brains, they want to new residents in the ghost town's car.

 

Hardly any American city has such a bad image as Detroit. Many residents of Molech in Michigan are mainly unemployment and crime fled. They leave behind vacant houses, which are looted and set alight. The center of the American automobile industry and will forfeit part of the fallow land.

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The released land but also open up opportunities for the people involved in ambitious projects to rebuild Detroit. Jörg Pfeiffer, reporter of the interactive travel reportage km42, two activist groups and visited
portrayed in the video: The "Urban Farmer" use since 2005, unused land to zucchini and Co. unit. The artist Gina Reichardt Mitch Cope and have their own way, the prices of houses to be used to young people in the abandoned town to lure car.

In his report followed a tip from Pfeiffer of km42 community.
Write us also of exciting projects, committed groups and creative individual fighters in the U.S., according to their own solutions to the problems of their society.

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