Detroit - cycle of decline
- Created by: EmilyRoseCotterell
- Created on: 08-01-18 13:37
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- Detroit - cycle of decline
- Past
- built up area
- high rise + public buildings
- buildings for public services
- univertsities
- 'Henry Ford' was the first car manufacturer in Detroit
- then GM + Chrysler
- inner city convenient for schools, shops + offices
- good night life - opera house, restaurants, orchestra, theaters
- well paid jobs
- residents rate the city high
- gardens, views, fountains, statues
- historical libraries, museums, art galleries
- Present
- resembles a 'war zone''
- experienced the negative side of globalisation
- more competition lead to more unemployment
- impacts the prize that local businesses can sell things
- abandoned + derelict homes
- homeless people
- 15,000 homeless
- loss of jobs
- buildings too expensive to fix
- cheaper labour elsewhere
- buildings have traps + often used to sell drugs
- GM headquarter remains but factory is elsewhere where labour is cheaper
- lower incomes
- whole city became bankrupt - e.g. due to less taxes
- increasing crime rates
- Causes
- impacted by industry modernisation
- Henry 'Ford' buildings is now derelict
- Reasons for the pattern of land
- more vacant land closer to the CBD and the river
- caused by closure of industry in the CBD area?
- outmigration as industries closed?
- industry likely to be located in the CBD or along the river
- traditionally industrial working class lived close to the CBD close to the industries
- middle class suburbs usually further out of the CBD industrial centre, but in driving distance
- less abandonment because fewer jobs are directly dependent on industry
- more vacant land closer to the CBD and the river
- Past
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