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.

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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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