The online e-magazine Model D has featured the writing of Frank Arvan – a Royal Oak-based architect – on Creating Creative Culture in Detroit:
http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/creatingcc.aspx
Using Detroit’s perhaps most noted innovation – mass production of the automobile – as an example, he suggested the need for new transportation technologies, new sustainable energy research, music, the arts and entertainment as all possible contributors to a more vibrant economy.
Arvan’s Silicon Valley reference is apt, echoing a March 28, 2005, New York Times article, “Is Silicon Valley Similar to Detroit?”.
http://www.preservedetroit.com/news/20050328.pdf