DeTROYt
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2007-02-06
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Virginia Tech
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An attempt to save the city of Detroit, Michigan, and its existing buildings by giving it a new meaning and future. Cars and roads are eliminated. Tiger Stadium is converted into a city-wide freight receiving and shipping facility. A system of pneumatic tubes is implemented in each neighborhood, with a district tube router facility inside the LaFayette Tower. Apartments vitalize the landmark Fisher Building. A new multi-storey research/ education/ work station with more stairs then elevators fills in an old parking lot.
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suburbia, European constitution, principles, blimp, Tiger Stadium, suburbs, pneumatic pipe, office building, trash, landfill, freight receiving facility, Fisher Building, utopia, dense city, car, shrinking cities, Troy, stairs, tube router, Detroit