91 results for 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.

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.

6 January 2016

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.