Investigation

Want to study up on Detroit before you dive in? Here is some suggested reading & viewing for first-time visitors and long-time fans alike:

PUBLICATIONS

• Model D 
• Urban Innovation Exchange
• Creative Exchange

ARTICLES

• The Post-Post Apocalyptic Detroit (NYTimes, July 2014)
• Testing Ground for a New Detroit (NYTimes, July 2014)
• Detroit: Ruin & Renewal (NYTimes, July 2014)
• The State of Social Entrepreneurship in Detroit (Model D, June 2014)
• Black-Owned Businesses Quietly Powering Resurgence (HuffPo, July 2014)
• Rebuilding Detroit, One House at a Time (NYTimes, March 2014)
• Eight Women Who Will Change Everything (HuffPo, Feb 2014)
• Why I Bought A House in Detroit for $500 (Buzzfeed, Jan 2014)
• We're Not in New York Anymore (New Yorker, Jan 2014)
• Bankruptcy, The Beginning of Another Opportunity (Model D, July 2013)
• As Detroit Flounders, Its Art Scene Flourishes (NYTimes, Aug 2013)
• A Private Boom Amidst Detroit's Public Blight (NYTimes, March 2013)
• UIX Connects Detroit's Social Innovators (HuffPo, March 2012)
• New Project Highlights Detroit Innovators (Detroit Free Press, March 2012)
• 36 Hours in Detroit (NYTimes, May 2011)
• Detroit Entrepreneurs Opt to Look Up (NYTimes, Jan 2010)

BOOKS

• Detroit Anthology (Anna Clark)
• Belle Isle to 8 Mile (Emily, Andy & Rob Linn)
• Detroit Field Guide (Wildsam)
• Reimagining Detroit (John Gallagher)
• 313: Life in the Motor City (John Carlisle)
• Detroit City is the Place to Be (Mark Binelli)
• Hidden History of Detroit (Amy Elliott Bragg)
• Lost Detroit (Dan Austin)
• Origins of the Urban Crisis (Thomas Sugrue)
• Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies (Danielle Aubert et al)

NEWS, BLOGS & RESOURCES

• Detroit Free Press
• Huffington Post Detroit
• Crain's Detroit Business
• WDET - Detroit Public Radio
• Detroit Unspun
• Curbed Detroit
• Eater Detroit
• Pure Detroit
• Thrive Detroit
• Positive Detroit
• Opportunity Detroit
• D:hive
• I Am Young Detroit
• Sweet Juniper
• Buildings of Detroit
• The Night Train
• With Love from Detroit
• Mapping the Strait

VIDEO & FILM

• UIX Video Series
• Searching for Sugarman
• American Revolutionary
• Grown in Detroit
• Lemonade Detroit
• Lean, Mean & Green
• Regional Roots
• Detropia
• Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
• Detroit Lives (Palladium Boots)
• Girls Guide to Detroit
• People Mover
• Downtown Youth Boxing Gym

TALKS

• TED: Shaka Senghor, The Atonement Project
• TED: Bill Ford, Ford Motor Company
• TED: Toni Griffin, Detroit Works Project
• TEDxDetroit: Veronika Scott, Empowerment Plan
• TEDxDetroit: Ingrid LaFleur, AFROTOPIA
• TEDxDetroit: Jackie Victor, Avalon International Breads
• TEDxDetroit: Matthew Naimi, Recycle Here
• TEDxDetroit: Jason Hall, Detroit Bike City
• TEDxDetroit: Paul Savage, Nextek Power Systems
• TEDxDetroit: Bobby Smith, EnGarde Detroit
• TEDxDetroit: Tom Nardone, Detroit Mower Gang
• TEDxDetroit: Andy Didorosi, Detroit Bus Company
• TEDxDetroit: Neil Greenberg, Freshwater Rail