2.3.3 Detroit

Question 1

Where is Detroit?

Answer 1

Michigan, USA

Steel belt -> Rust belt

Question 2

What is the Rust Belt?

Answer 2

A region of the US that experienced deindustrialisation starting in the 1950s.

It was formerly known as the Steel Belt because of its (then) booming steel industry.

Question 3

How has the population of Detroit changed?

1900 -> 1950 -> 2010

Answer 3

1900: 300,000
1950: 1.9m
2010: 700,000

Question 4

How has unemployment rates changed?

Answer 4

2000: 7.3%
2012: 18.6%

Question 5

Songs and poetry for Detroit

Answer 5

8 mile
Lives in a mobile home
Can’t afford diapers

Motown records

Question 6

Artistic representation of Detroit

Answer 6

Murals on the wall showing workers at a car plant - showing racial harmony. Diego Rivera.

Covers of Motown Albums showing racial integration.

Question 7

Photographs of Detroit

Answer 7

Showed 1000s of workers at the Ford production plant.

Abandoned houses and factories compared over time.

Question 8

Geo-spatial data in Detroit

Answer 8

More pay day lenders in higher black neighbourhoods.

Question 9

What % of property owners did not pay taxes in 2012?

Answer 9

More than 50%

Question 10

What is the % of unsolved murders in the city?

Answer 10

70%

Question 11

What is the “white flight”?

Answer 11

The movement of wealthy, educated white residents from cities to the suburbs / edge cities

Question 12

What is the best selling car brand in the US, and why?

Answer 12

Toyota Camry because it is more fuel efficient.

Question 13

Where did car manufacturing move from Detroit?

Answer 13

Mexico

Question 14

Chicago and Pittsburgh also had a large car manufactuing industry. Why did they not suffer as much as Detroit?

Answer 14

They didn’t put all their eggs in one basket - they had other industries too.

Question 15

In which decade did consumers want smaller cars and why?

Answer 15

1970s because of the oil crisis.

Question 16

Timeline of Detroit

Answer 16

Question 17

1967 Race riots

Answer 17

43 people killed

200,000 KKK members came to protest

Question 18

Name of neighbourhoods showing social segregation.

Answer 18

Black bottom vs Paradise valley

Question 19

What did Detroit do in 2013?

Answer 19

Declare bankruptcy

Question 20

Who were “the big three”?

Answer 20

Ford
GM
Crystler

Question 21

Why did Ford pay his workers high wages?

Answer 21

So they could afford to purchase their own Ford cars (so the money goes back to Ford).

Question 22

What was the Great Migration?

Answer 22

Where African Americans, in the early-mid 20th century, moved from the South to the North of the USA.

Question 22

What was the Great Migration?

Answer 22

Where African Americans, in the early-mid 20th century, moved from the South to the North of the USA.

Question 23

What percentage of houses are occupied?

Answer 23

1 in 3
(33%)

Question 24

What happened to Ford’s theatre?

Answer 24

It is now a multi-storey car park.