A garden was constructed in 2009 outside the Michigan Central Station in Detroit.
In late March a star urban planner named Toni Griffin will begin a new assignment. She'll help lead what might be the most ambitious urban makeover in American history the downsizing of Detroit, a city built to accommodate a population more than twice its current size. At a recent panel convened by TIME and the Brookings Institution, Mayor Dave Bing made clear what many had suspected that he intends to shrink the city, which cannot afford to serve dying neighborhoods.
There is something else that the city cannot afford: Griffin's salary. The 45-year-old comes to...
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