detroit ( negative character of place change )

Question 1

What was Detroit like

Answer 1

-Near 2 million population
-“American dream”
Home of automotive industry

Question 2

What happened

Answer 2

-Oil price crash
-People went for Japanese alternatives , Honda instead of Ford
Went from a boom to decline , segregation and racism

Question 3

Qualitative data

Answer 3

past
-8 mile and Detroit film
Eminem lives on 8 mile which is border between white and black neighborhoods
Its assumed he’s rich because he is white ( outsider) until he wins rap battle then he is ( insider )
He worked in an automotive factory

present
Media headlines , “shooting” “drugs” “decline” and “abandoned”

Question 4

Quantative

Answer 4

US census data
-Peak population in 1950s
-1960s highest per capita in USA
-1950-2000 steep decline of whites and increase in African americans , migration and white flight
-78% black , Grosse point 85% white
population decline from 1.8 million(1950) to 900k(2000)

Question 5

4 White flight

Answer 5

-1 million people left
-white middle classed left as they could afford to relocate
-recently some African American migration to metropolis but divide is still there with “white districts , grosse pointe park “ using physical barriers
-Detroit has 78% black population whereas grosse pointe park has 85% white

Question 6

3 Devils night

Answer 6

1,000 buildings burned down at one night each year
“felt like vietnam” bring me back to nam man
2 million worth of damage

Question 7

3 Urban farms

Answer 7

One of detroits future prospects
Over 40
Sense of welcoming community and people want to change / perceptional change

Question 8

2 Statistical changes

Answer 8

-Population ,2 million in 50s has fell 63%

-very low literacy rates of 47% due to over 100 schools being destroyed