No other region in Germany continues to reinvent itself like the Ruhr Valley. I stopped accepting ... the Ruhr region is the most brightly lit spot on the map. But there is no London Bridge ...

A hill emerges incongruously from the table-flat landscape east of the Rhine River near Bottrop, Germany ... hall of fame. The Ruhr region was the Silicon Valley of its day, memorialized here ...

Reporting from Bochum, Germany — Though known as the flower of the Ruhr Valley — a formerly industrial section of Germany northeast of Düsseldorf — Bochum may not exactly bloom on the world ...

In books, paintings and plays of social protest, the Ruhr Valley was long pictured as a ... economics minister of West Germany’s state of North Rhine-Westphalia. “Today it corresponds to ...

Deep in the heart of Germany's Ruhr Valley, a column of 25,000 angry blue-collar workers and their families has taken to the streets of Bochum, waving banners and red union flags, beating drums ...

The Rhine-Ruhr area from Bonn to Münster in Germany, long the home of steelmakers, chemical producers and other industrial firms, is adding Circular Valley to its nomenclature, a project being ...

In March, I traveled to Germany’s Ruhr Valley (Ruhrgebiet) as a teaching assistant for an urban planning studio at Columbia University. The purpose of the studio was to look at a small site in ...

Four out of five German voters oppose aiding Greece, particularly at a time when Germany is struggling with its own austerity plan.

Last week the French stated that they would confiscate all the Ruhr Valley industries ... continued to slow down negotiations between Germany and the Allies. Premier Theunis contracted to form ...

If you think there’s no hope for regions like America’s own Detroit, just check the audacious transformation of Germany’s Ruhr area. Once the Ruhr was a crucible of massive coal and steel ...

Its demise was another blow to the Ruhr Valley, which had propelled this nation into the industrial age and supported West Germany’s “economic miracle” following World War II. Instead of ...