Detroit

.title[
# Detroit
]
.subtitle[
## Race and deindustrialization
]
.author[
### GEOG 10023
]
.date[
### September 30, 2025
]

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## This week's key themes

* The Great Migration

* Racial segregation

* Deindustrialization

* Urban decline and renewal

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## Detroit

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## Detroit

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## History of Detroit

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## History of Detroit

.footnote[Source: [MLive.com](https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2018/01/historic_photos_fords_assembly.html)]

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## Detroit's population over time

.footnote[Source: [Daily Detroit](http://www.dailydetroit.com/2017/05/25/detroit-continues-lose-population-according-new-census-data/)]

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## The Great Migration

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## The Great Migration

.footnote[Source: [analepsis.org](http://analepsis.org/2012/03/25/the-great-migration-series-by-jacob-lawrence-hum225/)]

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## The Great Migration

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## The Great Migration

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class: middle, center, inverse

## Racial segregation

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## Segregation

* **Segregation**: the geographical separation of two or more groups of people in a given space

* Roles of sorting and discrimination in urban segregation
 
* Racial segregation declining in most cities; segregation by income on the rise

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## Segregation and housing policy

.footnote[Source: [Mapping Inequality project](https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=11/42.3778/-83.1483&opacity=0.8&city=detroit-mi)]

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## Segregation and housing policy

Key terms:

* Restrictive covenants

* Blockbusting and racial steering

* The Fair Housing Act

* "White flight"

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## Population change in Detroit

.footnote[Source: [Family Inequality blog](https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/detroits-decline/)]

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## Population change in Detroit

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## Racial segregation in Detroit

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## 8 Mile Road

.footnote[Source: [DetroitUrbex.com](http://detroiturbex.com/content/neighborhoods/8milewall/index.html)]

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## 8 Mile Road

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class: middle, center, inverse

## Deindustrialization

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## The "Rust Belt"

.footnote[Source: [Flat World Knowledge](https://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/bookhub/reader/15119?e=trowbridge2_1.0-ch12_s02)]

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## The automobile industry and Detroit

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## Automobile manufacturing

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## Deindustrialization and Detroit

* [Video: Detroit's Packard Automobile Plant](https://aeon.co/videos/a-poetic-tour-through-detroits-abandoned-ghostly-packard-automotive-plant)

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## Detroit and the "Great Divergence"

.footnote[Source: [Family Inequality blog](https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/detroits-decline/)]

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class: middle, center, inverse

## Urban decline and renewal

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## Urban decline

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## Clearing urban "blight"

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## Population change in Detroit

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## Urban renewal in Detroit

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# Next up: Vancouver and Montreal

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