Detroit Local Initiatives Support Corporation, better known as LISC Detroit, will celebrate the success of the city's community development corporations at its annual awards luncheon on Sept. 20.
Lou Glazer is an urban planning theorist who says Michigan must alter the way it thinks about itself if it is to remain competitive in a rapidly changing global economy.
So much to do over Labor Day Weekend...Downtown, there's the Detroit International Jazz Festival, while the Michigan State Fair wraps up on Monday. There's also the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix and the Hamtramck Labor Day Festival.
In its annual rankings of how well singles cities fare in 40 metropolises, Detroit came out twenty-first.
Live deeply, creative people. Follow your passions and do it in Detroit, where any kind of art scene can be built and sustained, says critic Rebecca Mazzei.
Crain's Detroit Business has published an extremely comprehensive guide to living and investing in the D, including a slide show, views into two days of five households' lives and much, much more.
Take this United Way survey to gauge how effectively young people in the region are being prepared for the challenges of a knowledge-based economy.
Charles Landry, author of the books The Creative City and the The Art of City Making, offers his views on what it takes to help urban centers reach their full potential.
The Boston Globe visits Detroit for a weekend, and shares the good times with its readers. Touting the riverfront, Inn at Ferry Street, the Whitney, Baker's Keyboard Lounge, and enjoying the city's music and its people.
Carol Coletta of CEOs for Cities spoke recently at Model D's speaker series. See and hear what she has to say about what Detroit can do to create density and develop and keep its own talent.
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