High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Urban development in Detroit discusses the ongoing urban planning and development in the city of Detroit, Michigan. In 1967, following the Twelfth Street riot, Michigan Governor George Romney, Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, and Joseph L. Hudson, Jr. announced the formation of a committee named "New Detroit," which at the time included such notables as Walter Reuther. The committee was designed to explore solutions to urban problems. Then in 1970, another important committee emerged named Detroit Renaissance - founded by business leaders Henry Ford II, Max M. Fisher, and Alfred Taubman which actively facilitated urban development in Detroit.