Reinvention and Resoluteness: A Brief History of Detroit
- urbanNext, December 27, 2018.
- 2822 words.
Detroiters’ Spatial Imagination, Essay, Lisa Ubelaker Andrade, NESS. 1, No Density, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms
City, Community, Community Facilities, Cultural diversity, Depopulation, Detroit, Detroiters’ Spatial Imagination, Essay, Gentrification, History, Housing market, Immigration, Inclusivity, Industrial context, Inequality, Landscape, Neighborhood, Political & Economic Approach, Politics, Population, Urban Legacy, Urban policies, USA, Vacant lot
For a casual observer, one who blithely follows the news, the mere mention of the city of Detroit evokes images of a post-industrial landscape. Detroit, the familiar story goes, was the backbone of the U.S. industrial age, the home to the nascent automobile industry, and the celebrated ‘arsenal of democracy’ during World War II. Fifty years later, the city was the graveyard of a declining industrial era, a symbol of urban crisis.