The Detroit News

A foreclosed property in Detroit was recently put on the market at a selling price of just one dollar.

With little money available in county coffers, residents in an Indiana subdivision are hoping to create a special assessment district that will allow them to personally pay for road maintenance.

Faced with neglect from the city, the residents of Southwest Detroit have successfully begun to revive their neighborhood on their own.

A cadre of architects, planners, and designers descended upon Detroit for the 9th annual University of Michigan Detroit design charrette. The focus: a more livable and inhabited downtown for the country's most maligned, but up-and-coming cities.

The challenges are great, but city officials and business leaders are hopeful that Detroit will build upon its successful Superbowl weekend.

The City of Detroit's effort to put a better face on the downtown for Super Bowl Sunday has its share of critics, as most of the $12 million set aside for streetscape and building facade improvement has gone to locations that need it the least.

With the recent bankruptcy of Delphi Corp, a spinoff of General Motors, the once proud middle-class City of Flint, Michigan faces an even bleaker future.

With over $300 million of expected economic activity, Detroit metro real estate companies view the superbowl as a tremendous opportunity to boost sagging sales.

Residents and local officials of St. Louis, Michigan, look to finally shed their image as a toxic landmark. However, with large shortages in the federal Superfund budget their efforts couldn't have come at a worse time.

A college plans to turn it's quadrangle into an 'urban forest' to give students a chance to see eco-friendly planning in action.

Amid concerns about fire hazards, city calls for banning front porch couches, a long-loved feature in student neighborhoods.

Developer wants to rezone for more housing in face of government and resident opposition.

Activist residents are changing the way developers do business.

In Celebration, FL, myriad rules ensure the vision of New Urbanism by governing the appearance of lawns, homes, and even the color of curtains.

New Department of Transportation data shows that poor road work can lead to hundreds of dollars in extra vehicle costs.

As its suburbs boom and inner-city decays, the Motor City stands to lose millions in population-based federal money. Local leaders hope to break the vicious cycle, pointing to new development.

The downside of success: downtown revitalization leads to higher rents and chains.

Detroit suburbs merge fire services, save millions

China car market booming, in part because there is no tax on gasoline

Borders committed to opening urban bookstores in Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit join Washington, other cities.