Grosse Pointe Moms Club
Doug DuBois for TIME
Neighborhood
Kids cycle through a Grosse Pointe Farms
intersection not far from the Country Club of Detroit. "The immaculate
lawns and beautiful homes are a sort of facade that covers a growing
loss of certainty in the future," says Robin Boyle, a professor of urban
planning at Wayne State University.
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