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- Probably no city in the high income world evokes impressions of urban decline more than Detroit --- and for good reason. The core city of Detroit has lost more of its population than any developed world city of more than 500,000 since 1950.
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Jan 7, 2022 · From 2005 through 2014, 28 percent of Detroit’s houses that could be mortgaged had gone through foreclosure, 6,000 of them more than once (calculated from CoreLogic and Detroit Data Collaborative data).
Sep 1, 2018 · Urban sprawl and inner city decline are two common and interconnected outcomes of contemporary metropolitan development. More than 25% of large cities in the world are considered shrinking cities. Detroit is one of the most notorious examples of severe decline in North America.
- Yichun Xie, Hongmian Gong, Hai Lan, Shi Zeng
- 2018
Dec 1, 2021 · Fast forward half a century, and segregated housing remains an apparent and detrimental issue in Detroit. Twice the number of white Detroiters live in middle-class neighborhoods than Black Detroiters, and, in Metro Detroit, more than three times the number of white residents do than Black residents.
Jun 30, 2021 · Urban decline impacted cities across America during this time, but Detroit stands out. In 1950, over 1.8 million people lived in Detroit; in 2013, the population was just over 700,000, a loss of well over half of the city’s population (Clement and Kanai 373).
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.
Jun 22, 2024 · Detroit, a symbol of urban and industrial decline, is getting positive press - lots of it - upbeat stories about its future. It's enough to make you want to crank up some Martha Reeves and the...
This analysis demonstrates how urban decline transforms the city—dismantling and disassembling existing spatial and social networks and infrastructures—while simultaneously creating new ones. It deviates from much of the current research that romanticises Detroit’s ruination by focusing instead on everyday urban life.
