An Intentionally Inclusive Detroit Edge City

Southfield, Michigan -- the prototypical Detroit Edge City, with a staggering 27 million feet of office and the motto "The Center of It All" -- intentionally made itself multiethnic and inclusive. Now affluent, educated blacks are in the majority. "Southfield made a conscious choice to prioritize civic values that all different kinds of families shared: the common ground of safety, good schools, and economic stability." Especially next to that national monument to ethnic stupidity, the city of Detroit, this is an inspiring and even astonishing story

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