Michigan
Detroit
Detroit is not a simple rise-and-fall story. This regional guide follows Campus Martius, Art Deco finance, Ford's Piquette and Highland Park plants, the Rouge complex, Motown, Black Bottom and freeway displacement, the 1967 uprising, Michigan Central Station and the riverfront to show how mass production changed work, migration, race, music and urban form—and how the city has repeatedly had to rebuild systems the automobile age created.
Stories in Detroit
- Campus Martius: Detroit Keeps Rebuilding Its Center
- Guardian Building: Industry Turns Wealth into Art Deco Confidence
- Piquette Avenue Plant: The Car Was Not Born on an Assembly Line
- Highland Park: The Assembly Line Changes Work—and Workers
- Ford Rouge: The Factory Tries to Contain an Entire Economy
- Motown: A Factory City Learns to Manufacture Music
- Black Bottom and Paradise Valley: The Neighborhoods the Freeways Erased
- 12th Street: The 1967 Uprising Was Not About One Police Raid
- Michigan Central Station: Ruin Becomes Infrastructure Again
- Detroit RiverWalk: The Industrial Edge Turns Back Toward the Public