• • Belle Isle: Motown's Monaco 
Tom Henderson, Crain’s Detroit Business The Fountainhead  |Capitalism  | [Belle Isle: Detroit's Game Changer] is told through the eyes of the character Darin Fraser, an architect who is showing a friend from Damascus, Syria, how Belle Isle has become the "Midwest Tiger," rivaling Singapore as an economic miracle. If an architect at the center of a book is reminiscent of Howard Roark of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, it's not accidental. The currency island residents use is called the Rand -- and not in imitation of the South African currency of the same name.   Published: 2013-01-12