Detroit then and now: An infographic.
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Source: National Post Any idea why the median income peaked in 1970? The other information that intrigues me is the drop in unemployment in 2002 which don't seem correlated to the shrinking in manufacturing jobs. The graph alone doesn't really show whether those employed in manufacturing are city residents who work in suburban factories or if they work in factories located within the city limits. I'm sort of assuming it's the latter but it could really be either one. It also doesn't explain what other factors are probably affecting unemployment rates. |
Having been there several times, it can be hard to imagine areas in that city of over 40k ppsm.
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Murders in Detroit are extremely broadly distributed, across the whole city, wow.
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The "death of Detroit" story has become a pretty tired cliche, but this one at least provides some well-organized, interesting visual data to go along with it.
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Imagine this but without vacant lots: http://i.imgur.com/D0SthnC.jpg The areas in the left side of this image would've been some of those over 40,000/sqmi: http://i.imgur.com/08x1Ias.jpg Or on the top left of this: http://i.imgur.com/hmQnkMw.jpg Woodward Ave. in 1942 - the area in the foreground would have been among the city's densest: http://i.imgur.com/eDnVF25.jpg |
Yea, imagining the physical buildings is the easy part, but I wonder more about actually living there. Like if that neighborhood was still intact, would it be comparable to neighborhoods in New York? Or Chicago? Or would it be unique enough to garner it's own identity that would seem like a "Detroit-style" neighborhood?
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Maybe a stupid question, but why did the Black population of Détroit increased so much from 1950 to 1980 ?
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That's unreal!
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As I said in the other thread, it would not require a huge capital investment from the US to rebuild parts of Detroit along the lines of the Stapleton airport redevelopment in Denver, with rowhouses, small apartments and single family homes. The end result could even look something like the 1940s pics. We just lack the will and creativity as a society to pursue it; our globalization-besotted leadership (hello Obama) barely registers the issue.
Those pics btw from 1942 show a real "MIXED USE" neighborhood: manufacturing, residential and commercial. We need balance. |
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This was called the Great Migration, and involved rural blacks in the American South moving to bigger cities for economic opportunity (and, to a certain extent, especially in the earlier years, to escape discrimination). The biggest growth in black population was in cities with a manufacturing base that were relatively close to the South. Midwestern cities with a manufacturing base, especially Detroit, Chicago, and Cleveland, received huge black populations. The major Northeastern cities (except for Boston) also received huge populations (DC also because federal jobs didn't discriminate, for the most part). And in the West, LA and Oakland had huge increase, with folks working in the shipyards and other new opportunities. |
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Detroit was a rich city, and still has very above-average housing stock. The West Side is mostly solidly built, often sizable, brick homes. The problem is that, for the most part, people don't want to live there, and you can't force them to live there. Also, people tend to forget that Metro Detroit is doing relatively ok. The economy is pretty good, the population is stable, and suburban Oakland County is one of the wealthiest counties in the U.S. Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham are as nice as the fanciest suburbs of other major cities, and in Birmingham, you don't get anything decent (single family home) for less than 600-700k, which is damn high in the Midwest. Somthing nice will be in the millions. In some ways, it's more accurate to say that Detroit "relocated", instead of declined. The city basically picked up and moved north and west. |
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Case in point: http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/994...m7n1rvjmq0.jpg http://detroitnewsarchivist.tumblr.c...iews-1940-1959 And what that area looks like today. The Chrysler plant is still in the same location, but it's clearly been modernized. http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/4...nshot100vy.png |
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I recognize that metro Detroit has plenty of nice and desireable, even urban areas. It would be great to see some pictures of said areas on these forums! |
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