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    • Sunday, 18 September, 2022
      Automobiles
      The auto show is back with less gloss as carmakers change tactics

      Consumers are returning to a different kind of Detroit expo

    • Monday, 4 October, 2021
      Patti Waldmeir
      Racial equity is key in efforts to revive Detroit

      Fresh strategies to breathe life into my hometown give hope where past attempts have failed

    • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
      News in-depthQuicken Loans Inc
      Quicken Loans IPO: mortgage pioneer cashes in a big win

      Detroit billionaire Dan Gilbert makes a muted return to the public markets

    • Monday, 22 June, 2020
      Patti Waldmeir
      Why my alma mater’s record on race has got worse

      Michigan’s top university has half the black undergraduates of its peak — and it is not alone

    • Friday, 5 June, 2020
      News in-depthGeorge Floyd protests
      Four generations of black Detroiters on the legacy of George Floyd

      Fears about the state of race relations haunt city at centre of 1967’s long, hot summer

    • Monday, 1 June, 2020
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      A revival stalled: coronavirus in America’s rust-belt

      The unemployment rate has soared in cities such as Detroit, which now face intensifying protests against police brutality

    • Tuesday, 31 March, 2020
      Coronavirus pandemic
      Poverty helps make Detroit next US virus hotspot

      Many residents are in ill health and lack access to medical facilities and grocery stores

    • Tuesday, 7 January, 2020
      Patti Waldmeir
      Farmers could hold the key to Detroit’s future

      Devastating urban blight has given the city some unexpected advantages

    • Tuesday, 17 September, 2019
      FT SeriesCity stats: how rivals measure up
      City stats: Detroit versus Toronto

      US city’s housing market reflects its relative reliance on manufacturing compared with its Canadian neighbour

    • Monday, 14 January, 2019
      Tesla Inc
      Tesla sideswiped by electric car buzz at Detroit auto show 

      Shares fell, while other automakers rallied, on the first day of the show

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      Special Report
      Revitalised Cities: Detroit

      Downtown Detroit is bursting into life after decades of decline, but will the recovery restart Motor City’s poorest areas? This report ranges from revitalising neighbourhoods and renovating a symbol of decline to an interview with one of the chief catalysts, entrepreneurship and urban farming

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      Special ReportRevitalised Cities: Detroit
      The drive to rebuild Detroit as ‘one city for all’

      Downtown is on the up but will deprived black neighbourhoods see the benefits?

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      Special ReportRevitalised Cities: Detroit
      The urban farmers trying to put down roots in Detroit

      Farms grew up in gaps left by decline — but are they here to stay?

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      Edward Luce
      Detroit and the reviving rust belt’s challenge to the Sunbelt

      Regeneration and geography offer a combination the south does not

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      Eric Thomas
      From ‘why I hate Detroit’ to ‘why I stayed’

      Eric Thomas’s 2016 blog went viral. What does he think about his changing city now?

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      Special ReportRevitalised Cities: Detroit
      Homegrown start-ups fuel Detroit’s revival

      From wine shops to tech, local entrepreneurs are stepping up - but many lack capital

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      Special ReportRevitalised Cities: Detroit
      Detroit’s celebration of music history prepares for new era

      The Motown Museum is expanding, with a mission to inspire

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      Special ReportRevitalised Cities: Detroit
      Ford uses Detroit station revamp to reinvent its future

      The carmaker is rebuilding a symbol of decline as a high-tech centre for ‘new mobility’

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      Special ReportRevitalised Cities: Detroit
      Dan Gilbert, the driving force who helped restart Detroit

      The Quicken Loans founder saw opportunity in a perfect storm

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      Special ReportRevitalised Cities: Detroit
      Detroit juggles gentrification and regeneration

      Buildings are springing up and people are moving in — but will existing residents be protected?

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      US & Canadian companies
      JPMorgan invites cities to bid for share of $500m development fund

      Bank’s philanthropic effort aims to spur economic growth in distressed urban areas

    • Thursday, 23 August, 2018
      FT AlphavilleBillions of Blistering Barnacles
      Tesla: ladies, liquor and leverage
    • Thursday, 16 August, 2018
      ObituaryMusic
      Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, 1942-2018

      Extraordinary vocal talent whose songs epitomised black power and women’s liberation

    • Friday, 10 August, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The riotous life of Wayne Kramer and the MC5

      A memoir of one of the ancestors of punk proves a noisy and self-centred read

    • Tuesday, 24 July, 2018
      US & Canadian companies
      Ford takes a page out of GM book to invest $4bn in in-house self-driving car unit
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