DETROIT Urban Fabrics City Map: PRINTDETROIT MICHIGAN. Motor City and glorious Gallery of Beaux Arts architecture and City Beautiful planning in the early twentieth century, vacant and derelict in the late twentieth century, gearing up for a Renaissance in the twenty first century. The city's architectural stock may be a shadow of its former glory now, but its plan still recalls designers' classicism in its downtown core as well as endless gridiron blocks fuelled by the auto industry's