By the time a building is abandoned and falls into disrepair, its community is already suffering. Michigan scholars suggest it’s time to plan for structures’ end of life before they even go up.
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Detroit is Burning
In 1967 race riots nearly tore Detroit apart. The next year, the Kerner Commission, appointed by president Lyndon Johnson, placed the blame on the way the police and had handled the response.
Big technology firms are becoming known for mistreating workers, customers and society as a whole. Is an economic powerhouse about to collapse like Detroit did years go?
Pop-up parks and tiny houses are just a few of the innovative solutions that can help post-industrial cities across Europe and North America adapt to the future.
Women have long been the targets of police violence as well as men.
Fifty years ago, Jeffrey Horner watched news broadcasts of the riots that erupted just miles from his home. But he was worlds apart from the racial tensions that had been festering for decades.
Less than four years after Detroit filed for bankruptcy, boosters say a revival is underway in the Motor City. But two scholars say new growth has not spread yet to neighborhoods that need it.
A new exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts highlights a controversial mural commissioned during a period fraught with social unrest.
Kate Daniels, the director of Vanderbilt’s creative writing program, recalls the life and work of her mentor, a man “devoted…to creating gritty and empathetic portraits of American blue collar workers.”
Graham Beal, the Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, recently announced that he will be retiring after fifteen years at the helm. Two of his achievements particularly stand out. The first is his…
Earlier this month, we learned that the biggest municipal bankruptcy in history would also be among the swiftest. The emergency manager for Detroit filed for bankruptcy in the summer of 2013 without a…
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Detroit is in turmoil, officially bankrupt and home to some of America’s poorest citizens. But 50 years ago it was thriving, boasting a booming manufacturing sector and a steadily growing educated middle-class…
On the surface it appears that the City of Detroit is facing a hopeless future. A closer look suggests that the picture is not so bleak. The alarm has been raised by the State of Michigan placing the city…
Detroit, formerly a global economic powerhouse, has filed for bankruptcy in the face of crippling loan repayments. While an equivalent collapse in the UK is unlikely any time soon, if certain voices in…
“Every year I’d tell myself it’s going to get better… and, sure enough, it didn’t get better.” – John Hantz Once held up as the epicentre of industrialised mass production, Detroit has for decades been…
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Professor Emeritus of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University
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Professor of Business and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Professor of International Relations, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor of Teaching, Wayne State University
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Geology, University of Michigan-Dearborn
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Associate Professor, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Law and Education Policy, Michigan State University
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Director of Creative Writing, Vanderbilt University
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Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning, Wayne State University
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Postdoctoral research associate, RWTH Aachen University
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Senior Lecturer in City Planning, UNSW Sydney
