This is an intersting story that I’ll have to keep my eye on. Rochelle Riley wrote in today’s Detroit Free Press about Mayor Bing’s visit to Detroit’s “sister” city, Turin, in northern Italy.
It turns out the two are remarkeably similar and low-and-behold, face very similar challenges in this post-industrial era in which we’re currently living in. And now, Bing and other city leaders are looking to Turin to see what they’re doing to re-build and reenergize the city.
Turin earned its Detroit nickname because the two cities appear to be separated at birth, except Turin arrived in the First Century BC and Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac’s canoe hit the shores of Detroit in 1701.
Detroit and Turin are nearly equal in area and population, and the main industry of each is making cars.
Read the entire column here.
