University of Minnesota Law School Scholarship Repository Studies Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity 1999 Detroit Metropatterns Myron Orfield University of Minnesota Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.umn.edu/imo_studies Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Myron Orfield, Detroit Metropatterns (1999). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Minnesota Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Studies collection by an authorized administrator of the Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Detroit Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability Myron Orfield A Report to the Archdiocese of Detroit January 1999 This report was a project of the Metropolitan Area Research Corporation (MARC). It was made possible with the support of the Archdiocese of Detroit, Departments of Christian Service and Parish Life, and the Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus. MARC would like to thank the following people for their comments which greatly improved the final report: Wendy Barrott, Wayne County Department of Environment, Air Quality Management Division; Al Bogdan, Wayne County Planning Division; Fr. Charles M. Morris, St. Elizabeth's Parish, Wyandotte; Brian O'Donnell, S.J., Ph.D., University of Detroit Mercy; Dr. Gary Sands, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Wayne State University; June Thomas, Urban and Regional Planning Program, Michigan State University. Lisa Bigaouette, Mary Hagerman, Scott Laursen, and Andrea Swansby of MARC made the maps and assisted in the production of the report. Myron Orfield is MARC's president. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Overview ...................................................................................................................................... 1 II.