detroit

"The plan made it to the Detroit Common Council in 1919, which passed a resolution to begin negotiations with the DUR to put the plan in motion. But Mayor James Couzens, elected into office just the year before, had campaigned on eliminating the DUR, and he vetoed it. The Council’s attempts to...

Today, Detroit is considered one of America's "key cities": an international hub of finance, culture, commerce, industry, etc. Chicago, on the other hand, has spent decades as the butt of jokes about terrible places to live, and while things seem to be improving (at least for the moment), it...

What if Detroit in the 1970s manages to turn things around and increases its population from 1.2 million to 2.5 million by 2020 (fueled by rapid growth in the 1980s and 90s)? What are the effects for the Midwest/Great Lakes region, and the United States as a whole? For some context, let's say...

The Ford administration offered $600 million to the metro Detroit region to build a subway system, but due to internal city vs suburbs politics, an overambitious subway system plan, and the eventual emergence of the Reagan administration in 1980, the subway system was never built. What would...

In 1812, Isaac Brock and Tecumseh attempted to get William Hull to surrender Fort Detroit by using bluff and deception. But Hull saw right through their attempts to trick him and refused to be intimidated. What if Hull had bought it and surrendered?

It stands out on a highway Like a creature from another time. It inspires the babies' questions, "What's that?" For their mothers as they ride. But no one stopped to think about the babies Or how they would survive, And we almost lost Detroit this time. -"We Almost Lost Detroit" by Gil...

Detroit, under Coleman young attempted to construct a transportation system quite similarly to the washington metro. If it had worked out, would it be able to help reverse the city's decline, keep its population above 1 million, and possibly even regrow up to 1.5 million? (Basing this scenario...