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Revving the engine

2 November 2021

After a major financial collapse, Motor City’s creatives are joining forces. So could the artists and gallerists behind the resurgence get the whole of Detroit into gear?

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The Urbanist - Tackling Detroit

5 September 2013

Detroit: What is to be done? We collect advice on bringing people and money back to the city from neighbourhoods and experts around the world who’ve been in financial trouble themselves.

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The Urbanist - Explaining Detroit

30 August 2012

Detroit: a special on the once-thriving city that’s reinventing itself as a cultural, entrepreneurial and urban-farming hub. Plus, a chat with Detroit mayor Dave Bing.

Monocle Minute

Chicago may be making headlines on the back of the success of its first architecture biennial that ended last week but the Windy City isn’t the only place in North America that’s earning design distinction. Detroit is one…

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Let’s look at plan B

20 January 2011

Struggling nations and cities need to hitch up their skirts, quicken their step and just get on with it. Our editor-in-chief follows up the debates stirred up in this issue.

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How to mend a city

21 September 2017

Detroit is set to witness its first population growth since the 1950s. This is how the city used urbanism to press restart.

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The Urbanist - Tall Stories 426: Michigan Central Station, Detroit

16 September 2024

Mandy Sinclair explores the story of a disused rail station in the car capital of the US, which has been given a new lease of life by the automobile giant that calls Detroit home.

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Americas

17 May 2009

The Obama's grand designs on their private White House living quarters, going Dutch in the Antilles, planting seeds of change in Detroit and the Interoceanic Highway near completion - maybe.

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Business

20 March 2014

Citizens regeneration in Detroit, salmon selling in Alaska and other business news and views.

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Americas

17 June 2007

The ups and downs of the Caribbean, plus life on the farm in downtown Detroit.

Monocle Minute

Urban renewal

22 September 2016

The rust-belt city of Detroit, which declared bankruptcy in 2013, has recently been experiencing something of an art-and-design resurgence – and homegrown retailer Shinola has been synonymous with its rebirth. Founded in…

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THE MONOCLE BRIEFINGS: Part Five

18 March 2011

For this week’s briefings, Monocle heads to Beirut and Berlin with a stop in Detroit. A film from the Monocle television series on Bloomberg.

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The Curator, episode 46

1 September 2012

Robert Bound selects an opera with a difference in Birmingham, a chat with Detroit’s mayor, and a sandcastle competition as his weekly favourites.

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The Monocle Daily, episode 449

18 July 2013

Detroit declares itself bankrupt – we hear from Nancy Kaffer of the Detroit Free Press and our man in Washington, Sasha Issenberg. Plus, we review the prospects for civic office in Canada as another mayor gets caught in a…

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The opener

21 September 2017

Pedal power in Zürich, Singapore-style workouts, Detroit’s architectural resurgence and an unexpected tea accompaniment in Beijing: we’ve scoured the globe for our news round-up.

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The Urbanist - Tackling public transport

2 February 2012

How New York is bringing back small businesses, urban researcher John Bingham-Hall on Detroit and Richard Florida on how to fix a city.