Hi Everyone- Out of our Detroit discussions we see alternative and parallel strategies of land use and geographic narratives-

http://www.hantzfarmsdetroit.com/

http://www.urbanfarming.org/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/us/30detroit.html?ref=us

Here's a new project by artists Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle that proposes a parallel economy to our current neo-liberal model- it's called Time/Store... another utopian economic alternative to our 'morning after' hyper-capitalist collapse?

Time/Store on Essex Street follows the historic Cincinnati Time Store, opened by the American anarchist Josiah Warren in 1827 as a three-year experiment in alternative economics. Warren's idea was to develop an exchange system where the value assigned to commodities would come as close as possible to the amount of human labor necessary to produce them. For example: 8 hours of a carpenter’s labor could be exchanged for eight to twelve pounds of corn. This system eventually led to the creation of time currency, and to contemporary time banking—an international movement of alternative economics.

http://www.e-flux.com/timebank/