Detroit USA (AC) A place.. economic change / victim to globalisation

Question 1

factfile

Answer 1

• was once the thriving hub of the car industry
• from 1920 to 1950 it was the 4th most populated city in the USA since then has lost 60% of population
• ford used to have large factories

Question 2

how many homeless people current

Answer 2

over 15,000 which is many

Question 3

how do they currently bring in money

Answer 3

casinos

Question 4

what where the problems

Answer 4

• 1967 rioted whites vs black
• deindustralisation, many white workers taking thier money and moved to suburbs
• high crime rate (1990)
• big gap in wealth (1990)
• employment rate nearly 30% (1990)
• many neglacted buildings (1990)|
• lots of homeless people
• people losing jobs
• the great depression
• automobile companies left
• people think detroit was to dependant on automobile industry

Question 5

solutions, rebranding, re-image

Answer 5

• provide soup banks
• demolishing abandoned + run down houses
• thinking about creating farms from old sites
• shelters are provided
• food banks delivered 14,000 tonnoes of food in one year