Detroit City of Design
Having entered last year freshly unshackled from the largest municipal bankruptcy case in American history, Detroit is starting 2016 on a similarly encouraging note: violent crime is down, unemployment rates are at a 15-year low and a local woman closed out the year by winning a record-breaking $2 million jackpot playing the slots at Greektown Casino. At the end of 2015, the city also joined UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network as the first-ever City of Design in the United States.