Detroit

Question 1

Why did Detroit become a successful settlement in 1776?

Answer 1

Controlled by France and good defence location to keep England from using river. Great lakes and waterways provided good travel

Question 2

Describe the importance of Detroit in terms of trade for the US

Answer 2

Detroit is the gateway from Canada. 1/3 of Canadas land trade uses the Ambassador Bridge

Question 3

3 similarities between Downtown, Midtown and New Centre

Answer 3

• All census response went down suggesting Detroit is declining
• High % of Black Americans
• More than half the population have internet access

Question 4

2 differences between Downtown, Midtown and New centre

Answer 4

• Downtown more people houses than people
• Midtown has highest population

Question 5

What does census data show about Detroit?

Answer 5

Shows there are inequalities, higher or lower rates of poverty linked to internet usage, there is more houses than people in Downtown. Detroit has a high ethnic diversity

Question 6

What lead to rapid development of Detroit in 19th and early 20th century?

Answer 6

Industrialisation

Question 7

What caused the rapid decline of Detroit in late 20th century?

Answer 7

deindustrialisation

Question 8

Why was Henry Ford so significant in the prosperity of Detroit?

Answer 8

His model of industrial-capitalism

Question 9

How did men and women experience the growth of capitalism differently?

Answer 9

Men working in factories and women staying at home

Question 10

What happened in the 1930s?

Answer 10

The great depression

Question 11

How did WW2 benefit Detroit?

Answer 11

car factories rebooted to use for war machines, tanks and resources

Question 12

What happened to industry in Detroit in the 1970s and 1980s?

Answer 12

Manufactures faced abroad competition so they moved production to cheaper places

Question 13

What word describes the movement of production by TNC’s abroad?

Answer 13

Offshoring

Question 14

What happened in 2008/9?

Answer 14

Financial crisis

Question 15

What happened in 2013?

Answer 15

Bankruptcy

Question 16

Exogenous factors that have impacted Detroit since 1900

Answer 16

• globalisation of industry
• WW2 used factories
• Great depression
• Government funding to regenerate the city

Question 17

Why has there been a rise of people moving to Midtown and New centre? and how does rest of Detroit compare?

Answer 17

Due to denitrification
opposite to the rest of Detroit

Question 18

What happened in Midtown and New centre for the first time in 2015 since 1950s?

Answer 18

The amount of white residents grew by around 8,000

Question 19

Endogenous factors Detroit has experienced?

Answer 19

Henry Ford, topography, birth rate grew after industrialisation

Question 20

How much did the population decrease by in 52 years?

Answer 20

0.8 million

Question 21

What problem occurred with housing in Detroit?

Answer 21

Foreclosures occurred a lot as people couldn’t afford their mortgage

Question 22

What group of people experienced more foreclosures?

Answer 22

Black people

Question 23

What is Blight?

Answer 23

cycle of decline are becomes rundown so nobody wants to live there

Question 24

What is the Blight removal task force?

Answer 24

Put in place in 2013 and demolished Blighted properties

Question 25

What is black/white flight?

Answer 25

people leaving as thy don’t feel welcome due to race

Question 26

What happened in 2014?

Answer 26

• Detroit spent $50,000,000 to demolish 20 neighbourhoods (mostly black)
• water was shut off to 33,600 people as couldn’t pay

Question 27

What occurred in the 1960’s?

Answer 27

Race riots

Question 28

What is the house price range like and in which areas?

Answer 28

range from 1,250 - 6.4 million
Rich mostly in white areas

Question 29

what affects did white flight have on Detroit?

Answer 29

• often business was owned by white people so funding became limited
• schools closed down as pupils moved to suburbs so children remaining became illiterate (low census response)
• Black people left without jobs as businesses closed