A TOD stands fot transportation oriented development. It mixes urban land uses to create a dense, walkable, multi-modal regional transit hub, in this case on near-­perfect sites in Detroit, with many open parcels ripe for redevelopment surrounding the AmTrak station sand new tram stops. A TOD is lively, dense node with housing, retail/office, industitutional, entertainment and public spaces tapering off to clean industry, small startups, shared workspaces and food gardens at the edges, including a pinkZONE. Detroit needs TODs that creatively integrate socio-economic, environmental and aesthetic concerns in to livable, productive, socially just,  resilient communities that interconnect with the city and region.
More than a residential community of consumption, the TOD will also be a community of production. Balancing jobs and housing, it will include both foreground and background buildings, with a range of residential options- from live/work, work/live,micro-units to family condos and rental units- making for a vibrant whole greater than the sum of the parts.Affordable, pedestrian and bike friendly urban TODs and pinkZones offer employment, vitality, proximity, urban anonymity and smaller carbon footprint. It is arguably the next American Dream, resiliently replacing the sprawling, auto-dependent and privatized,consumptive lifestyles of the McMansion suburb.