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What happened to and in Detroit?

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The paper describes the fiscal status of the city of Detroit leading up to its filing for bankruptcy on 18 July 2013. Then the economic history of metropolitan Detroit and the city of Detroit from 1950 to the present is examined in an effort to answer these questions: Why did Detroit file for bankruptcy – not some other major city? And why now and not earlier? The paper concludes that, while Detroit and several other cities in the northeastern region suffered major population and employment losses and went through a long period of urban crisis between roughly 1970 and 1990, the severity of Detroit’s problems compared with other cities did not emerge fully until the most recent decade.

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  • John F McDonald, 2014. "What happened to and in Detroit?," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 51(16), pages 3309-3329, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:51:y:2014:i:16:p:3309-3329
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098013519505
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    1. John F. McDonald, 2023. "The changing relationship between metropolitan area population growth and central city decline in the US manufacturing belt," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 71(2), pages 299-316, October.
    2. Samuel B. Stone & Akheil Singla & James Comeaux & Charlotte Kirschner, 2015. "A Comparison of Financial Indicators: The Case of Detroit," Public Budgeting & Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(4), pages 90-111, December.
    3. Na Jiang & Andrew Crooks & Wenjing Wang & Yichun Xie, 2021. "Simulating Urban Shrinkage in Detroit via Agent-Based Modeling," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-22, February.
    4. Hamidreza Zoraghein & Brian C. O'Neill, 2020. "A spatial population downscaling model for integrated human-environment analysis in the United States," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 43(54), pages 1563-1606.
    5. Seth Schindler, 2016. "Detroit after bankruptcy: A case of degrowth machine politics," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(4), pages 818-836, March.
    6. Tom Barnes & Joshua M. Roose & Bryan S. Turner, 2021. "Detroit five years after bankruptcy: From coercion to consent," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(10), pages 2139-2156, August.
    7. Kummitha, Rama Krishna Reddy, 2018. "Entrepreneurial urbanism and technological panacea: Why Smart City planning needs to go beyond corporate visioning?," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 137(C), pages 330-339.
    8. Na Jiang & Andrew T Crooks & Hamdi Kavak & Wenjing Wang, 2024. "Leveraging newspapers to understand urban issues: A longitudinal analysis of urban shrinkage in Detroit," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 51(5), pages 1089-1103, June.

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