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Apr 6, 2017 · Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger.
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This chapter outlines how the results of Detroit’s decline...
- Acknowledgments
My Dutch colleagues who traveled with me to Detroit, Martijn...
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Ten Detroit’s emerging innovation in urban infrastructure:...
- List of Contributors
Jason Roche is an Associate Professor of Communications...
- Intermezzo II My Detroit
People took great pride in their neighborhoods and jobs were...
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Percentage of Metro Detroit’s white and black populations...
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Jan 7, 2022 · Like much good research, Herbert’s work can inspire more investigation by other scholars. Detroit offers a case of extreme decline that helps make more apparent conditions that, Herbert asserts, likely also exist in other declining cities and sections of cities (pp. 235, 238).
The chapter situates the book within wider literature on Detroit and explains why what happens in Detroit matters for other cities, before outlining the approach of the book and providing an overview of the chapters within it.
- Postwar Boom, Then Ugly First Signs of Urban Decline
- Cause and Effect: People Leave, Taxes Go Up, More People Leave
- Coleman Young’s Legacy: Divisive — But Fiscally Sound
- Missed Chances to Rightsize Staff as Population Falls
- Costs For Health Care, Retiree Benefits Soar — City Fails to Act
- Bonuses to Workers, Retirees Add Up to More Budget Trouble
- Kilpatrick’s Award-Winning Deal Turns Into A Financial Disaster
- Bankruptcy Avoidable — Until Decadelong Borrowing Binge
- Finally: What Would Frank do?
Coming out of World War II, American industry was triumphant, and few centers of industry were riding higher than Detroit. The Arsenal of Democracy had built the planes and tanks that carried the war effort and was ready to return to producing cars and trucks for peacetime. The fruits of victory were everywhere. Detroit’s population was growing tow...
As the post-World War II manufacturing expansion leveled off and Detroit started to lose population and revenue, the city turned for the first time in 1962 to an income tax: 1% for residents, nonresidents and corporations. Only six years later, the rate for residents would double. In the early 1980s, a nasty national recession pummeled the auto ind...
When Coleman Young was elected mayor in 1973, Detroit had lived through one of the worst race riots in U.S. history and had lost about half a million people from its peak population years. Young has been alternately blamed for fanning the flames of racial tension, dealing out sweetheart deals to unions, expanding the city’s budget and setting Detro...
One running theme in the Free Press’ review is that city leaders failed, again and again, to come to grips with the looming crisis. Young downsized the bureaucracy, but not as much as he should have in view of the city’s declining population and revenue. And in 1994, when the Clinton-era financial boom took hold and the city’s finances appeared to ...
It has been obvious for at least a quarter-century that governments and industry were going to face massive legacy costs as more workers aged and retired. In fact, Detroit had about 18,000 retirees in the late 1980s, only about 3,000 fewer than today. But Archer said the red flags weren’t obvious in the 1980s and 1990s. “During the eight years I wa...
In 1994, Archer convened a meeting of his top officials the first week he took office to inspect the city’s books. Rago, Young’s budget director who stayed on during Archer’s first year, told the new mayor how the city’s pension system distributed excess earnings each year to retirees and active employees, instead of reinvesting it. The practice of...
On Dec. 6, 2005, Kwame Kilpatrick strode to the stage of a New York City ballroom to applause. Decked out in a black tuxedo, Kilpatrick accepted a gleaming trophy for engineering a complex $1.44-billion pension deal designed to eliminate the city’s unfunded pension liabilities. He cracked a joke on stage, and Wall Street chuckled. Photographs from ...
Despite the city’s huge tax burden, big spending and large bureaucracy, the Free Press analysis suggests that when Archer left office in 2001, the city still could have avoided disaster. Bankruptcy was not inevitable. But under the Kilpatrick and Bing administrations, the city started borrowing aggressively to cover its operating expenses, enabled ...
An echo of Detroit’s current distress can be found in memories of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Then, too, Detroit suffered overwhelming unemployment, chronic budget deficits, rampant crime. But the city government managed to avoid a financial collapse, led by charismatic Mayor Frank Murphy, later Michigan’s governor, U.S. attorney general and...
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Jun 30, 2021 · After many years of chronic financial and administrative dysfunction, Detroit had become the quintessential example of so-called “urban decay” rampant in American legacy cities. Nearly a decade after the city declared bankruptcy, however, Detroit has entered a so-called “renaissance.”.
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Nov 9, 2021 · LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) announced today that the city of Linden in Genesee County has been accepted to the Certified Local Government (CLG) program, following confirmation from the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
