What caused the decline of Detroit?

Many people cite political corruption as a reason for Detroit's decline. While Detroit's city government is undeniably rife with corruption, it is almost certainly not any more corrupt than cities such as New York, Chicago, or San Francisco. read more

Modern Detroit also has to deal with the decline of the American automobile industry. Many of the economic issues stem from the fact that it did not diversify like many other rust belt cities. To this day, it more than earns the name the motor city. read more

The city of Detroit, in the U.S. state of Michigan, has gone through a major economic and demographic decline in recent decades. The population of the city has fallen from a high of 1,850,000 in 1950 to 677,116 in 2015, kicking it off the top 20 of US cities by population for the first time since 1850. read more

Detroit’s problems began precisely with the rise of the auto industry during the 1900s and 1910s, not from the beginnings of its decline 50 years later or from ill-fated attempts to resuscitate it since. The seeds of Detroit’s decline had been sown long before suburbanization accelerated in the ‘50s, or racial tensions exploded in the ‘60s. read more