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    Introduction Detroit, Michigan is a unique city boasting of an iconic past, a gloomy present, and a potentially bright future. Once one of America’s largest and most thriving cities because of professional opportunities in the automotive industry, Detroit fell to devastating lows after the loss of thousands of jobs from Ford Motor, General Motors, and Chrysler. Detroit is the 18th overall most populated city in the United States, the largest city in the State of Michigan, and recently became the…

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    Introduction Detroit is the largest city in the state of Michigan in the United States. Thanks to its excellent location on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system, manufacturing brought prosperity to the city. Detroit´s wealth came mainly from auto manufacturing which gave the city nicknames like Motown or Motor City. Despite the fact that it was one of the world´s greatest industrial centres in the 1950s, it is now considered to be America´s most dysfunctional city.…

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    Urban Planning In Detroit

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    Detroit, the motor city, used to be the pinnacle of the American manufacturing industry. The 1950’s and 1960’s was the root of our modern day cities. This period of urban planning in America was one of idealized visions of vast cities and great public works projects. The urban planning practices of this period were consistent with “segregated and dispersed” development throughout the city generating an unsustainable urban sprawl and socio-economic concentration into the suburbs. Over 60 years…

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    Downfall and Revitalization of Detroit and its relation to Neo-Liberalism Introduction: The city of Detroit has undergone a series of dramatic economic transformations throughout its history. It is these economic cycles throughout Detroit’s chronological timeline that help to both explain and describe the condition that Detroit is in, as well as give perspective for policymakers to come up with ways to deal with and improve the community based on said factors. Detroit has seen both a…

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    what had happened to Detroit, is it ever possible for the city to make a comeback? Detroit has gone through so much devastation and is starting to slowly improve, are the small improvements enough to be maintained? 2. The Criminalization of Urban Space and the mass incarcerations of black citizens and citizens in general, if this did not work then how can legislators pose a real solution that can benefit the city of Detroit? 3. Based on the effects that had happened Detroit loss more than just…

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    Describe the chronological evolution of Detroit from Native American community to modern day through the lenses of our pantheon of economic theorists. Which theories support the development of Detroit at which times? How? The Native American community where Detroit now sits was populated with French forts by late 17th century which changed hands to British and then the Americans by the 19th century. With a comparative advantage in furry mammal habitat, the Detroit area sponsored its excess…

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    Detroit thru 1701-1760 In the beggning Detroits main idea for it was to make a stronghold in it since the river would help defend a stronghold and also help with trade. The man who was going to carry out this plan was , Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, to do this he convinced his father King Louis' Minister of Marine, of the postives of making a settlement here. Even though this started in 1697 to help stop the British from moving west ward the plan was not achived till July 24, 1701 as there where…

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    rising , there is no country or cites stay same for every. Detroit was known as thriving ,now known for its corruption , callousness and lack of quick response . Detroit was one of the richest cite. Detroit : An American Autopsy. Le Duff wrote about life in Detroit and also he talks about Detroit streets is filled with corruption. The politicians in Detroit don't care about what going on there ad they are part of corruption in Detroit. The document of Detropia shows how the city goes to…

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    The Purple Gang in Detroit History During the liquor prohibition in Detroit which happened from 1920-1933. As a result of Michigan passing a law and adopting the Damon Act that banned liquor from being sold and consumed in the town, organized crime began taking shape during this era as Jewish gangsters controlled the underworld of the American society (Kavieff, 20). The Purple Gang was led by one of four brothers by the name of Abe Bernstein and it was formed by young Jewish immigrants as a…

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    thriving community with a promise of a greater, more successful tomorrow. The American dream of owning a home, cars and property reduced to nothing more than just that, a dream. As we witnessed in Anthony Bourdain's documentary, "Parts Unknown": Detroit, one of the greatest cities of progress and manufacturing now covered with graffiti and littered, empty buildings. Run down houses, and huge sky skyscrapers selling for only a few million dollars. ("Of the 13 recessions that the American public…

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