In a Detroit neighborhood shared by Bangladeshi, Polish immigrants, longtime African-American residents and young artists, something is happening.

In her book “Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit,” U-M Professor June Manning Thomas explores what went wrong, demonstrating how and why government programs were ineffective and even destructive to community needs.

Michigan Architecture Prep (ArcPrep), a new program hosted by Taubman College, is introducing 38 high school juniors from Detroit Public Schools (DPS) to the multi-faceted discipline of architecture.