The city of Detroit, that we have written about before on this blog, has now gone bankrupt. The city filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history on Thursday July 18th, and it is most likely also the largest municipal bankruptcy in history, globally. The bankruptcy was forced by the Governor of Michigan, as a… Continue reading Detroit. Michigan’s Motor City, Goes Bankrupt
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The demise of Detroit
When all “directions” fail there arises in the darkness over the abyss the one true direction of man, towards the creative Spirit” – Martin Buber, I and Thou, 1923 In the introduction to the book Place Management, which was authored by Christer Asplund and Jacob Ikkala and published by Bearing in 2011, I wrote about… Continue reading The demise of Detroit