Someone from Europe posed the following question on Reddit a few days ago… “Americans: What exactly happened to Detroit? I regularly see photos on Reddit of abandoned areas of the city and read stories of high unemployment and dereliction, but as a European have never heard the full story.” Here, because I think some of […]
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What exactly happened to Detroit?
Posted in Detroit, Uncategorized Also tagged Albert Kahn, anti-union, automotive industry, Belle Isle, Brush Park, Chicago, city income tax, Coleman Young, Comerica Park, Corktown, corruption, crack cocaine, Dave Bing, Detroit '67 riots, Detroit City Council, Detroit corruption, Detroit Riot, Detroit River, factories, Ford Field, Ford Motor Company, forestry, General Motors, GM, Henry Ford, housing bubble, housing crisis, industrialization, Joe Louis Arena, Kevyn Orr, Kwame Kilpatrick, logging, lumber, maquiladora, Mexico, NAFTA, North American Free Trade Act, northern migration, outsourcing, People Mover, Poletown Plant, prohibition, public transportation, Pulte, racism, Rail, Renaissance Center, Rick Snyder, Ross Perot, the parable of Detroit, union busting, unions, westward expansion, who to blame for the situation in Detroit 9 Comments
No Robocop for Detroit
Perhaps due in part to that Chrysler ad that captured everyone’s imagination during the Super Bowl , the city of Detroit is, once again, attracting national media attention. Today, there’s a feature in the Washington Post entitled, “With Detroit in dire straits, mayor invites big thinking.” Here’s a clip. …With no salvation in sight, Bing, […]
Posted in Detroit, Uncategorized Also tagged Build a statue of Robocop in Detroit, Chazz Miller, Chrysler, Dave Bing, downsizing of Detroit, Egypt, Ford Foundation, Knight Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Martha Reeves, Robin Boyle, Robocop, Rockefeller Foundation, Skillman Foundation, the Detroit situation, Tunisia, urban development, urban farming, urban homesteading, Urban Land Institute, urban planning, Wayne State 18 Comments