Detroit

• Sources: Mural - Malice Green
• Sources: Documentary - Detroit debt
• Sources: Songs - letter to Detroit + dancing in the street
• Sources: Film - 8 mile road
• Sources: Photography - race riots 1980's
• Sources: Census data
• Detroit = 'MoTown' car city vs 'Murder capital' 2010
• 1920: Ford - 50,000 employees = flows of people + development of TNCs in centres
• 1950: The Great Migration - 1000 people per month = economic migrants -> segregation -> low incomes - 73% rent in centre + 50% in poverty in centre
• 1950: Negative spiral of depravation - 16% unemployed -> house prices decreases -> decrease in tax -> decrease in education, (only 6% have degree in centre vs 25% in the suburbs) = poverty cycle
• 1970: Mechanisation - higher skilled white people employed
• 1970: Automation - less workers needed
• 1967: Race riots - caused doughnut effect
• 1970: White flight - white people move to suburbs - managerial jobs in suburbs and longer life expectancy (86 in suburbs vs 62 in centre) DECENTRALISATION
• 1973: Oil Crisis - Ford prices increased, export of American cars decreased = Japanese cars become more popular as cheaper to run
• 2009: Financial crash
• 2009: Globalisation increases -> decrease in jobs at Ford
• 2013: Detroit bankrupt - $20billion in debt - Ford + GM settle $850m in debts
• 2000: Hardest Hit Fund - government - exogenous
• 2010: Q-Line introduced -> allows less affluent to access factories
• 2014: Land bank authority - local gov own 1/4 of building stock
• Gentrification: 2.5% increase in white people, 0.5% decrease in black people.
• Gentrification: change culture " Two Detroits" - 7 square miles of gentrification . 71% jobs held by white Americans who live in suburbs
• 2018: General Motors closed 3 plants including Detroit - 14,000 jobs lost
• Little Caesars : $539 million investment. = residential prices increase as land is redeveloped
• Life Remodelled NGO = $35million investment -> reduces segregation, unemployment, and increases education. Revitalises Detroits most deprived regions - beautifies areas
• increase in suburbanisation = decentralisation = dereliction in centre
• Quantative sources : Census data (2010), House prices
• Degree: 6% have a degree (IC), 25% have a degree (suburbs)
• Ethnicity: 25% white, 69% black (IC), 93% white, 4% black (suburbs)
• Renting: 73% rent (IC), 21% rent (suburbs)
• Avg home value: $22,000 (IC), $132,000 (suburbs)
• Poverty line: 50% on poverty line (IC), 9% on poverty line (suburbs)
• Employment: 16% unemployed (IC) ,3.6% unemployed (suburbs)
• Car: 65% own a car (IC) ,84% own a car (suburbs)
• Health : 37% obese (IC), 21% obese (suburbs)
• Mural


  • Malice Green, $18,000 donated to rebuild it
• Documentaries


  • Detroit Debt
• Song


  • Letter to Detroit - Eminem 2009
• Song


  • Dancing in the Street 1964