Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co.,
and Chrysler LLC are fighting for their lives. Large stretches
of Detroit are already dead.

With enough abandoned lots to fill the city of San
Francisco, Motown is 138 square miles divided between expanses
of decay and emptiness and tracts of still-functioning
communities and commercial areas. Close to six barren acres of
an estimated 17,000 have already been turned into 500 ``mini-
farms,'' demonstrating the lengths to which planners will go to
make land productive.