Urban art therapy grows in Detroit Shoreway; Richey Piiparinen gets involved

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Rustwire.com: Urban art therapy is giving the residents of Detroit Shoreway cause for reflection after a gas explosion destroyed nearly five dozen homes and buildings in 2010. Richey Piiparinen, a researcher with the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, explains his collaboration with the W. 83rd St. Project.