Anatomy
"Detroit be a Twilight Zone//...be the last thing standing between us and dirt"
Why Detroit ’67 Matters Now
The lessons of the ’67 Detroit Rebellion are as important now as they were fifty years ago.
How to Discuss Detroit’s Most Difficult Topic
By Aaron Foley Here in Detroit, we romanticize the immigrant-to-the-big-city story. We love our Ellis Island-type legends, where proud descendants [...]
Aretha Was Detroit
By Aaron Foley Reprinted with permission from Detroit's The Neighborhoods, where Aaron Foley has continued to chronicle the city's response to [...]
Two Letters: Jackie Kennedy, Ray Bradbury, Suburbia, and Me
By Amy Kenyon This is a memory of two letters written during the last years before home computers and social [...]
When Ruby Jones Was Here
Excerpted from The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook, coming in August from Belt Publishing. By Lakisha Dumas When Ruby Jones was here, Detroit was [...]
Abandoned Tires Prove Both Blight And Boon For The Motor City
One 2014 morning on Detroit’s northeast side, residents along Mapleridge were horrified to find that 10,000 tires had been stuffed into a row of abandoned houses on their street.
On Leaving Detroit
I have a dear friend who is planning to leave Detroit very soon to move West. After living in and around Detroit all his life, he is taking a new job in sunny California. He is, by definition, the very demographic Michigan wants to hold on to...
Call for Submissions: The Chicago Anthology
Here at Belt we’re in the business of covering the Rust Belt. But what exactly does that mean when it comes to Chicago?
Happy Birthday, Jackass!
It is with great pride that we at Belt announce the birth of our newest book: Aaron Foley's How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass, which officially hits the streets today.
Weekly Links Roundup
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt. Belt is [...]