{"id":6096,"date":"2015-07-16T23:36:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T03:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uropcbrp.com\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:07:15","slug":"week-7-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2015\/07\/16\/week-7-4\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEK 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up as an only child, my three older cousins were like my sisters. One of the best parts of being in the city this summer has been living only two blocks away from the one closest to me in age, Miranda. She has lived here for about 5 years, since she moved down to attend the College for Creative Studies. It has been so great living so close&#8211;\u00a0as we&#8217;ve grown up, we haven&#8217;t been able to see as much of each other. But this summer, I can walk about 5 minutes and be right at her door, and I even run into her on the street sometimes. We have gone to free comedy shows put on by her friends in the recycling center, gotten free tickets to broadway shows in the Fisher Theater, gone to free movies in New Center Park, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It has also been interesting being able to meet other young people living in the city through her. Many of these young people are artists who have either come here for school, or moved here from another city (Brooklyn, for example, as this article talks about: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/12\/fashion\/last-stop-on-the-l-train-detroit.html?ref=fashion\">Last Stop on the L Train: Detroit<\/a>)\u00a0for what they&#8217;ve perceived as the creative opportunity. As we&#8217;ve discussed in seminar, however, this represents a tricky dynamic: many native Detroiters have been struggling a long time for what they have, while these youngsters come in and can, in some cases, have anything they like. It raises the question: will any of the benefits of this new desirable Detroit reach long time residents who have stayed in the face of abandonment and blight? I don&#8217;t have answers. I do know that none of the young people I have met have bad intentions (that I have been able to see). Perhaps the narrative needs to be more prevalent.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6097\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/07\/detroit-recycle-imbed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6097\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/07\/detroit-recycle-imbed.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"I say recycle center and you  probably image some cold warehouse, but it's so much more than that! They may or may not have a sculpture of a dragon made out of recycled materials that breathes fire. \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/07\/detroit-recycle-imbed.jpg 800w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/07\/detroit-recycle-imbed-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/07\/detroit-recycle-imbed-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I say recycle center and you probably image some cold warehouse, but it&#8217;s so much more than that, I swear! They may or may not have a sculpture of a dragon made out of recycled materials that breathes fire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6098\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6098\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/dcbrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2015\/07\/img_0070.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6098\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/dcbrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2015\/07\/img_0070.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"This was taken a long long time ago when taking pictures in random Walmart gear was fun\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This was taken a long long time ago when taking pictures in random Walmart gear was fun, but this is my cousin and I.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6099\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6099\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/07\/a80c99840fa4c9a94eebc1cb5abb80f7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6099\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/07\/a80c99840fa4c9a94eebc1cb5abb80f7.jpeg?w=300\" alt=\"Miranda is an amazing artist \" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/07\/a80c99840fa4c9a94eebc1cb5abb80f7.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/07\/a80c99840fa4c9a94eebc1cb5abb80f7-300x194.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miranda is an amazing artist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up as an only child, my three older cousins were like my sisters. One of the best parts of being in the city this summer has been living only two blocks away from the one closest to me in age, Miranda. She has lived here for about 5 years, since she moved down to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dcbrp-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16101,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions\/16101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}