Detroit Visions: CDAD, Detroit Declaration, & Others The following eight statements communicate CDADs principles:1 1.

Detroits revitalization requires a bold, new visiona vision that acknowledges the challenges created by decades of population and job loss, while embracing the possibilities of a more economically viable and environmentally sustainable future. 2. Detroits revitalization requires a vision for the entire citya vision that includes a vibrant downtown and urban core, stable and livable neighborhoods, as well as a strategy for re-purposing thousands of acres of vacant land and buildings. 3 Detroits revitalization must include a long-term plan that guides both short-term and long-term resource allocations. While it may take many years to truly reinvent Detroit, we can no longer afford to waste time and money on failing strategies. 4. We must stabilize and reinforce Detroit neighborhoods that already have quality housing stock, dense populations, and market appeal, and work to make these areas more competitive in the regional housing market. These communities should be enhanced to improve the quality of life for residents through: a) local-serving retail and service businesses, b) better transportation options from mass transit to improved walkability, c) housing varietyincluding permanent affordable housing options, and d) improved city services. 5. Vacant land and very-low density areas should be repurposed in ways that enhance the quality of life for city residents, create jobs, improve the environment and lay the groundwork for future redevelopment. New uses could include open space, recreation, greenways, urban agriculture, alternative energy production or temporary land banking. Residents of low-density areas should be provided incentives to relocate into denser, more stable neighborhoods. However, Detroit has enough vacant land that reuse strategies could begin with little or no displacement of residents. 6. Implementing Detroits bold new vision will require unprecedented collaboration among residents, government, business, anchor institutions, philanthropic organizations, and non-profit organizations including community development organizations. 7. Community development organizations, which are neighborhood-specific along with city-wide non-profits can make important contributions to implementing Detroits new vision and should be included in strategy development. 8. Community development organizations play an especially vital role in Detroit neighborhoods, including: Community organizing to resolve local problems, prevent crime and build cohesion among residents and businesses Serving as a bridge between government and private market forces Vacant land management and reuse Local housing and commercial development

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Detroit Visions: CDAD, Detroit Declaration, & Others Detroit Declaration PRINCIPLES:2 Building on Detroits assets to create opportunity and options for a prosperous city and people:

Be welcoming and embrace our diversity. Move beyond mere tolerance of our differences to a true commitment to openness, understanding and cooperation, and the inclusion of multiple perspectives both in our neighborhoods and at the highest decision-making realms. Preserve our authenticity. Celebrate and elevate that which makes Detroit uniquelocal art, music, food, design, architecture, cultureto build a stronger local economy. Cultivate creativity. Build an infrastructure to foster and promote emerging talent in one of Detroits greatest strengths, the arts: music, film, visual arts, design, and other creative industries. Diversify our economy. Create a culture of opportunity and risk-taking, especially by investing in entrepreneurialism and small, micro-business. Promote sustainability. Embrace the triple bottom line of economic, social and environmental benefit by retooling our infrastructure with green technology, adapting vacant buildings and open spaces for new uses, and creating healthy, family-supporting jobs. Enhance quality of place. Create a comprehensive vision for transit-linked, high-quality, walkable urban centers in Detroit. Demand transportation alternatives. Invest in an integrated regional transportation system that links communities and provides citizens with access to the jobs, health care, and education they need. Prioritize education, pre-K through 12 and beyond. Create a culture that values the wide, equitable educational attainment necessary to produce both economic opportunity and stronger citizens. Elevate our universities and research institutions. Create world-class education, new technology, and medical centers to attract and retain students and faculty from around the world. Enhance the value of city living. Demand public safety and services to improve the quality of life for residents. Demand government accountability. Reward civic engagement with responsive, transparent, and ethical governmental decision-making. Think regionally and leverage our geography. Maximize our position as an international border city and a Midwestern hub between Chicago and Toronto. Forge meaningful partnerships between Detroit and its suburbs to compete globally in the 21st century.

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Detroit Visions: CDAD, Detroit Declaration, & Others Kamran Mofid:3 A Spiritual, Moral and Ethical Understanding of our Society and Economy (http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/15-7) Steps to take: 1. Begin a journey to wisdom by embodying the core universal values of the Golden Rule. 2. Revolutionize economic thought by interdisciplinary focus on how to share economic benefits justly for the common good. 3. Change the economy fundamentally by creating a new vision and model of economic development, based clearly on the goal of sustainable human well-being; seek ecological sustainability, social fairness and economic efficiency.4 Ecological sustainability recognizes that natural and social capital are not infinitely substitutable for built and human capital, and that real biophysical limits exist to the expansion of the market economy. Social fairness implies recognizes that the distribution of wealth is an important determinant of social capital and quality of life. 4. Recognize that the economy is part of the biosphere. The global economy is a subsidiary of the natural order. Economic policies should be attuned to the limited capacity of Earth's biosphere to provide for humans and other life and to assimilate their waste. Photosynthesis and sunlight are as essential to the framework for economic budgets and expenditures as the laws of supply and demand. 5. Establish new institutions committed to fitting the human economy to Earths limited life-support capacity, which will effectively conserve the planets ecological resources and enforce laws against overrunning Earths limits. 6. Be fair. Recognize humans as part of an interdependent web of life on a finite planet, and recognize the rights of the human poor and of millions of other species to their place in the sun. 7. Expand the discussion of economic policy and ecological limits on the global economy beyond top government officials, professional economists and narrow, short-term solutions focused on the bottom line of private powers. 8. Begin serious educational debates about teaching virtue, building character, moral and social development, and bringing diverse people together for the common good. Questions to ask: What is the source of true happiness and well-being? What is the good life? What is the purpose of economic life? What does it mean to be a human being living with finite resources? How can the global financial system become more responsive and just? How can the world make the global trade system more equitable and sustainable? What paths can be recommended to shift the current destructive global political-economic order from unrestrained economic growth, profit maximization and cost minimization, to material wealth creation that also preserves and enhances social and ecological well-being and increases human happiness and contentment? How can society overcome poverty and scarcity with limited natural resources? How should we deal with individual and institutionalized greed? What are the requirements of a virtuous economy? What religious or spiritual variables should be considered in economic/business ethics and economic behavior? Founder of the Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative (Oxford, 2002), Co- founder/Editor of Journal of Globalisation for the Common Good and a member of the International Coordinating Committee of the World Public Forum, Dialogue of Civilizations.
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Another way of referencing the Triple Bottom Line of environmental health, social justice and economic prosperity.
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Detroit Visions: CDAD, Detroit Declaration, & Others How are these components to be integrated with economic theories and decisions? What role should universities play in building an integrity-based model of business education? What should be the role of the youth? How might the training of young executives be directed with the intention of supplying insights into the nature of globalisation from its economic, technological and spiritual perspectives, to build supporting relationships among the participants that will lead toward action for the common good within their chosen careers? Indeed, is ethical, profitable, efficient and sustainable capitalism possible?

Conclusion and Objectives: We need a new economic model, enabling us to deal with new challenges, rather that rescuing and bailing out a discredited and bankrupt model, philosophy and theory. The long-term solution to the financial crisis is to move beyond the "growth at all costs" economic model, to a model that recognizes the real costs and benefits of growth. We can break our addiction to fossil fuels, over-consumption, and the current economic model and create a more sustainable and desirable future that focuses on quality of life rather than merely quantity of consumption. It will not be easy; it will require a new vision, new measures, and new institutions. It will require a redesign of our entire society. But it is not a sacrifice of quality of life to break this addiction. Quite the contrary, it is a sacrifice not to. SDAT Final Report; A Leaner, Greener Detroit (http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/aiab080216.pdf): 1. Detroit is at a critical point in its history. Its problems and difficulties are real and intense. As the global economic crisis deepens and the automotive industry goes through a wrenching transformation, they can easily seem overwhelming. At the same time, the citys opportunities are substantial, and achievable. If those opportunities are to be seized, and the citys economic decline arrested, however, radically different thinking will be needed from that which has brought Detroit to its present condition. 2. Detroit must recognize its reality as a far smaller city than it once was, in population if not land area, and reconsider its land use, its economy, and its transportation network around that reality. 3. Detroit must adopt bold, visionary but realistic strategies, pursued in bold, sustained, long-term fashion. 4. Detroits key players in both the public and private sector must work together. In that respect, city government has a critical role to play. Ultimately, city government is the glue that can hold a city together. If the city government does not perform that function, no one else can step into its place. This is another reality that Detroit must confront, and decide whether it can re-invent a city government that can not only deliver needed public services, but that can offer both vision and leadership to the community, bringing all of the public and private stakeholders in the community together to build a new Detroit. At another level, building greater cooperation and engagement among the many governmental and private entities across Southeast Michigan needs to be a priority. 5. Detroit must plan. What Detroit needs, though, are not pretty picture plans, but specific, practical action plans to achieve particular goals, whether it is the urban agriculture initiative, the green jobs initiative, the anchor institutions initiative, or the larger strategy of reconfiguring the citys land uses around the reality of a far smaller population. These plans cannot be hatched by a handful of people behind closed doors. A process is needed by which the entire community both comes to understand the new reality, and participates in the process of framing the strategies that reflect that reality. Only in that way will those strategies have the public support that will be needed.

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David Korten: The Great Turning

We humans face a choice between two contrasting models for organizing our affairs: the dominator model of Empire and the partnership model of Earth Community. After 5,000 years of organizing human affairs by the dominator model, the Era of Empire finally has reached the limits of the exploitation that people and Earth will sustain. A mounting perfect economic storm born of a convergence of peak oil, climate change, and a falling U.S. dollar is poised to bring a dramatic restructuring of every aspect of modern life. There is no technological fix for the human crisis. The underlying problem is a consequence of social dysfunction and the only solutions are cultural and institutional We now face a choice between a last man standing imperial competition for what remains of Earths natural bounty and a cooperative sharing of Earths resources to create a world that works for all. Empires power depends on its ability to control the stories by which we humans define ourselves and our possibilities. Whoever controls the prosperity, security, and meaning stories that define the mainstream culture, controls the society. The key to changing the human course is to displace the prevailing Empire prosperity, security, and meaning stories that define dominator hierarchy as the natural and essential human order, with Earth Community prosperity, security, and meaning stories that celebrate the human capacity to live in cooperative balance with one another and Earth. Healthy children, families, communities, and natural systems are the true measure of prosperity. To end poverty, heal the environment, and secure the human future it is necessary to turn from growth to the reallocation of resources as the defining economic priority. Eliminate harmful uses (military, advertising, sprawl, and financial speculation), increase beneficial uses (environmental regeneration, food and energy self-reliance, health, education, and productive investment), and give priority to the needs of those the old economy excludes and represses (the desperate, hungry, and indentured). Security and social order depend on strong, caring communities based on mutual responsibility and accountability. All being is the manifestation of an integral spiritual intelligence seeing to know itself through the on going creative unfolding in search of unrealized possibility. We humans are a choice making, choice-creating species that can choose to create societies that nurture our higher order capacities for compassion, sharing, and commitment to the well-being of all. Meaning is found in discovering our place of service to the whole.

http://www.davidkorten.org/BulletPoints Detroit Food Justice Task Force Shared Basic Values: o Transparency; operations of all member groups are viewable by all. This includes transparency of finances, decision making, partnerships, etc. o Open source knowledge share; knowledge and experiences are shared freely and openly. It is important to share our "recipes for success" so that we can stand on each others shoulders rather than recreate the wheel. o Participation, accessibility and replicability; information concerning successful models of urban agriculture are made accessible to as many people as possible so that they may engage in farming and participate in the greater network. o Environmental, social and economic regeneration; urban agriculture is more than just sustainable; it creates and strengthens environments, communities, and economies. o Cooperative ownership; the benefits of urban agriculture are shared fairly with all who participate. o Appropriate technology; technologies that benefit urban agriculture are researched and utilized, provided that they maintain consistency with the vision, mission, and values. o Earth connection; many believe that there is a spiritual, comforting and even healing component as people work with soil in an outdoor environment. 5