by
Jeff Spross
The Heidelberg Project, named after the street on which it operates, is an outdoor art and neighborhood-renewal project in Detroit that creates found-object sculptures out of deteriorating houses. Still operating after two decades and two near demolitions, the project is part of a burgeoning artistic renaissance occurring amid Detroit’s economic decline.
(Flickr/elise8122)
Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent for The Week, an economics and climate reporter for ThinkProgress, and has written for the policy journal Democracy. More by Jeff Spross
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