International view of Detroit?

[rb336]

quick read

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/in...de_the_us.html

[iheartthed]

My experience has been that foreigners views in general about Detroit aren't as harsh as Americans unless they have strong ties to the US. But many foreigners find the concept of an urban decline as steep as Detroit's to be... foreign. The agent who screened me while I was going through passport control in Italy a couple weeks ago was very amused by the "Enjoy Detroit" t-shirt I was wearing.

[LeannaM]

quick read

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/in...de_the_us.html

I've seen Detroit in the Daily Mail a few times. Keep in mind, the Daily Mail is a tabloid generally.

Going, going, still going: Detroit family home still for sale after 519 days despite being on the market for just $1

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...et-just-1.html

My favorite city was on there last year.

City of ghosts: Haunting abandoned buildings of St Louis after the city's population FELL by 70 per cent in a century

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...tiful-art.html

Some more Detroit articles
What can UK local authorities learn from Detroit's descent into bankruptcy?
http://www.theguardian.com/local-gov...-councils-debt

The demise of Detroit: what happens when localism goes wrong
http://www.theguardian.com/local-gov...ism-goes-wrong

Detroit's future may have to wait until Christmas
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...as?INTCMP=SRCH

Cities: a warning from Detroit
http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...=ILCNETTXT3487

Detroit is bust, but it’s still Henry Ford’s world
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/.../#.UfwrYm3DB3U

BBC articles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=detroit



There's some idea of the view of other countries. I remember a couple years ago when two Swedish reporters were following Patrick Berglund and he was playing in some tournament in Detroit. The reporters said they felt unsafe around their Detroit hotel, FWIW.