Few cities have experienced a sharper economic change of fortune than Detroit. It was one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation between 1900 and 1950. In the nearly 75 years since then, it ...

Highland Park is taking steps toward revitalization as the city begins demolishing abandoned buildings and homes. It's part ...

ABA Impound lines a thread of train tracks that cut through Joy Road in northwest Detroit. The lot’s lone building sits at the end of an innocuous lane, entirely fenced in. On a Friday morning ...

ABA Impound lines a thread of train tracks that cut through Joy Road in northwest Detroit. The lot’s lone building sits at the end of an innocuous lane, entirely fenced in. On a Friday morning ...

A study that two of us published in 2017 answered this question in the affirmative: Tearing down an abandoned building in Detroit does increase the value of nearby properties by a small amount: $162.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) It was one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation between 1900 and 1950. In ...