Is Detroit a frontier city?

The definition of a frontier city isn’t much different than the
definition of the word “frontier” itself – something yet undiscovered
and undeveloped, just beyond the edge of a settled region. Of course
don’t take that literally when thinking of Detroit as the frontier. But
if you think of that in terms of searching for a new economy and
molding it into something new, well, Detroit is most definitely on the
frontier.

Excerpt:

Belle Époque Paris, Soft City
London or Beatnik New York were never quite as wild as Post Industrial
Detroit is now. Perhaps Berlin just after the end of the Cold War
compares. Dubai might be globalization’s frontier capital.
But to wander among the creative destruction dominating the urban
landscape of the Rust Belt is to understand one’s own limitless
possibility.

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