Michigan

The Detroit Money Shot

Journalists may be overplaying the desolation of Detroit by lustily photographing a few key ruins and cropping well-kept factories out of the picture.

2 November 2009 - 8:00am

Vice Magazine

LaHood to Detroit: Don't Worry About High-Speed Rail

Speaking to the Detroit Economic Club recently, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood addressed high-speed rail, Detroit's bus crisis, and the economic future of the area.

16 October 2009 - 8:00am

Crain's Detroit Business

'An Explosion of Creativity' in Grand Rapids

The ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan resulted in 1,262 artists temporarily installing their pieces in 159 venues around downtown. The public picks the winner.

27 September 2009 - 7:00am

GOOD Magazine

Trading Cars for Fashion

Detroit's creative class is making the switch from designing cars to couture, as local boosters push the manufacturing culture into a new industry: Fashion.

21 September 2009 - 2:00pm

CNNMoney.com

Film Industry Lured to Michigan

In an otherwise stalled local economy, a few new construction projects are underway in Michigan, thanks to new tax incentives that are drawing the film industry to the state.

10 September 2009 - 9:00am

The New York Times

The Feral Houses of Detroit

Plant life is taking over the abandoned houses of Detroit. These photos from James D. Griffioen offer a tour.

26 August 2009 - 7:00am

Sweet Juniper

Accustomed to Decline, One Neighborhood in Flint Bucks Trend

Take two seemingly unrelated words: Flint and Gentrification. Now put them together. What you get is an unexpected rebirth in one part of the struggling city -- a neighborhood where home ownership and community investment are actually increasing.

21 August 2009 - 11:00am

The New York Times

Can Michigan -- and Detroit -- Come Back?

Having fallen to near-bottom according to most indicators of urban vitality, Detroit is now facing the possibility of bankruptcy. But there are still reasons for optimism, writes John Ibbitson.

19 August 2009 - 1:00pm

The Globe and Mail

Struggling Cities Meet to Brainstorm Survival Strategies

Representatives from a handful of the country's "fastest-dying cities" met recently in Dayton, Ohio to try to figure out how they could revive their economies and reverse the decline that has been slowly strangling them of jobs, money and people.

14 August 2009 - 9:00am

The Wall Street Journal

Midwest Governors Coordinate to Seek High Speed Rail Funding

At the Midwest High Speed Rail Summit today in Chicago, an agreement was struck between eight states to work cooperatively to achieve Recovery Act funding to develop the Chicago Hub High Speed Rail Corridor - also called the Midwest corridor.

29 July 2009 - 12:00pm

Environmental News Service

Don't Fear the 'Dozer

Opinions are flying in the debate over whether or not ailing cities like Detroit should bulldoze their empty neighborhoods. John Kromer of the Fels Institute of Government adds a rational note with this op-ed, explaining what The Flint Model for shrinking cities actually entails.

13 July 2009 - 5:00am

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Main Street Beating the Odds

Niles, Michigan has managed to build jobs and add businesses to its Main Street over the past five years. How did they do it? Wayne Senville of the Planning Commissioners Journal stopped by on his tour around the U.S.A.

7 July 2009 - 12:00pm

Planning Commissioners Journal

Struggling Cities Could Become Bike Utopias

As some cities in the Rust Belt depopulate, they present opportunities to develop into new bike utopias. This op-ed from The New York Times argues Detroit is a perfect example.

7 July 2009 - 6:00am

The New York Times

The Shared Woes of the Auto Industry and the Black Middle Class

The downfall of the American auto industry is also having a major impact on middle and working class African-American families. This piece from the The New York Times Magazine looks at the connection.

29 June 2009 - 6:00am

The New York Times Magazine

Back-To-Nature Plans Stall Innovation

According to this op-ed, allowing cities to de-densify undermines the importance of the city's role in society at large--namely, as a breeding ground for technological and cultural innovation.

23 June 2009 - 6:00am

Los Angeles Times

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Retailers Fleeing Detroit

As recently as the turn of this century, retailers were taking a chance on downtown Detroit. But today, Starbucks, Borders and others are pulling their stores out.

19 June 2009 - 5:00am

The Wall St. Journal

Letting Nature Take its Course

Facing urban decline and abandonment, a growing list of U.S. cities may be dramatically accelerating the process by returning vast swathes of land to nature.

16 June 2009 - 12:00pm

London Telegraph

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