Detroit and Paris, Paris as Detroit

  • Jeremy Tambling
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Abstract

On 18 July 2013, Dave Bing, Democrat mayor of Detroit, officially filed for Detroit’s bankruptcy, on the advice of its bankruptcy lawyer, Kevin Orr, who had been put in charge by Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder. Orr wanted to sell off the contents of the Detroit Institute of Arts, founded in 1885, as the city’s assets. Can a city be peripheral? Perhaps one which has lost its motor-industry, which gave it its twentieth-century character, can; General Motors and Chrysler both filed for bankruptcy in 2009. In 1920, Detroit was America’s fourth most populous city, after New York, Chicago and Philadelphia: Motown’s auto industry then accounted for 47 per cent of the workforce. At its peak, its population was over two million; now it is 713,000.

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American City Refugee Camp Public Housing Complex Peripheral City Parisian Apartment 
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