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Originally Posted by Crawford
The problem is that, for the most part, people don't want to live there, and you can't force them to live there.
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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Exactly. The downtown area, obviously would be one of the first areas to see a rebuild in residential population, but for many of the mid-to-outer ring neighborhoods, they were where the factory workers lived. And without factories or some sort of job center, there's really no demand for living in these areas. It really isn't all that different than what happened in many rust belt cities, but it's the scale of it that really gets people.
Case in point:
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.
