section 3 - Detroit CS

Question 1

Interstate system

Answer 1

• interstate highway act 1956 expanded the US freeways
• increased movement from the city to the suburbs
• aim to increase car ownership, increasing profits in local automotive industry
• caused white flight and donut effect
• drop in population

Question 2

1967 riots

Answer 2

• whites against blacks as result of the donut effect and interstate system
• African Americans who were able to relocate were barred from moving to the suburbs by social segregation and racism

Question 3

de-industrialisation

Answer 3

• increasing competition overseas for the automobiles industry
• auto union UAW and the big three manufactures GM, Ford and Chrysler entered into bad contractual deals with expensive legacy cost
• industry moved work force to Mexico and Canada but headquarters remain
• 1990s economic stagnation set in and unemployment rising

Question 4

donut effect

Answer 4

• influential political and business group joined white flight from inner city = widening divide in inequality
• a ring of affluence surrounding a hole of black urban deprivation

Question 5

three mile drive block club

Answer 5

• self-help scheme

- neighbourhood watch group driving round abandoned houses and reported to the police

Question 6

consequence of collapsing tax base

Answer 6

• less investment
• reducing services quality like street lighting, schooling and bus routes
• increasing crime rate - save money local government switch street light off at 2am

Question 7

unemployment

Answer 7

• 30%
• unable to pay for funerals for loves ones = overloaded mortuary
• increase reliance on soup kitchens or food banks as food prover and employment - Ex - Cleaners community food bank

Question 8

redevelopment

Answer 8

reliant on philanthropic and business groups

Question 9

deteriation of environmental characteristics

Answer 9

• lack of investment = environmental quality declined

- self-help schemes - local communities growing gardens

Question 10

abandoned buildings

Answer 10

• 10,000 Abandoned buildings across 363km2 of city
• factories, stripped-out apartments and neglected civic buildings
• architectural masterpieces from boom 1930
• 1/3 empty buildings - schools & hospitals
• Arsonists burn 500 houses per yr