Detroit ReConnected — Yimeng Ding

"What if the street were a 'public site' that could hold the needs and desires of a community to realize its fullest sense of connectedness, prosperity, well-being and belonging?"

In an era for restorative justice, Detroit, like many other US cities, is looking to repair the harms of urban renewal by re-imagining these highway systems as walkable streets and parkways that reconnect divided neighborhoods and communities.

Detroit ReConnected: Reparative Mobilities in the Motor City, a multi-disciplinary design studio at Harvard GSD, uses three city streets and two highway reconfiguration typologies in Detroit to investigate how five forms of urban mobility can inform the role and function of the public street right-of-way.

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