place study - detroit

Question 1

demographic past character

Answer 1

the great migration - african americans travelled from rural south states to urban northeast and midwest to apply for jobs
- total population of metropolitan areas are dependant on the car industry

Question 2

cultural past character

Answer 2

• motown promoted racial integration of music
• 1967 race riots more than 7000 arrested and 2000 buildings destroyed
• 1970s city accused of segregating races in schools and housing

Question 3

socio-economic past character

Answer 3

19thC - hsipping brought wealth to city
20thC - economic and pop expansion
ford and great motors manufactured standardised consumer good
- steel belt in southern michigan
- 1970 competitors from asia produced more desirable products
- 2013 financial emergency declared in the city

Question 4

current character

Answer 4

• bankruptcy in 2013
• invest into public services
• move 4000 families into vacant houses
• heavily white population
• 2018 great motor shut down
• gentrification

Question 5

current character - built environment

Answer 5

• downtown redevelopment plans to revive the city
• mixed use residential estates
• rundown and abandoned buildings and businesses
• auctionings have to regenerate

Question 6

economic success and expansion

Answer 6

steel belt boom - population rise in 19thC, home grown companies manufactured new standardised consumer goods
- southern michigan established waterways and canals, roads and railways to help connect iron mines with coal resources

Question 7

workers

Answer 7

• the great migration
• black people earned 3.40 less than white people and had lower education

Question 8

population

Answer 8

decline in 1970s
- international oil crisis prompted drivers to buy vehicles with greater fuel economy
- asia produced more desirebale models
- rising numbers in unemployment, fall in taxes and less to invest into public services

Question 9

white flight

Answer 9

middle class white families move into the suburbs, amde possible by their high incomes as they could afford to commute back to the centre
- the jobs followed the relocation

Question 10

representations

Answer 10

industrial mural - represents the boom of automotive industry, what follows was a bust due to competitors in asia
BLKout - bring cultural diversity back into detroit before the white flight and 67 rebellion