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Detroit? The industry is still there but they've lost 50% of their population. But the whole point of the video is when you build these big suburbs and suburb
by shiftpgdn 4y ago
Detroit? The industry is still there but they've lost 50% of their population.
But the whole point of the video is when you build these big suburbs and suburban development patterns you're on the hook for their cost no matter if anyone is living there or not.
- koheripbal 4y agoThis is an odd example. Detroit literally lost hundreds of thousands of auto manufacturing jobs. The companies only remain there in a token fashion.
- slothtrop 4y agoDetroit's population has been declining for 60 years, and the population of the Metro area is still in the millions. The city itself is at 624,177 in '20. The downfall is years and the making and has to do with more than auto manufacturing. It's not like the nearby cities stuck with a single point of failure for a century, manufacturing is big but varied and the economy diversified over time. Across the U.S. manufacturing has been sensitive to the rise of competing economies. strongtowns actually names Detroit as a very early adopter of suburban city planning and sprawl. The argument is they are in part reeling from the impact of these policies faster than other cities.