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Just googled images Detroit blight. Is there any hope?

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AdamK47 said:
The city of Detroit has been going downhill for decades. Even in '87 when the movie was released.
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As were most other American cities at the time. The reason Detroit was picked is that Detroit was especially known for it's murder rate during the crack epidemic. Also it would be easy to find abandoned buildings to blow up for the action scenes.
I really doubt they were trying to foretell the eventual slow choking death by politician 25 years later.
 
TBH I'm surprised it did not recover when the big 3 got a bailout, I guess they never rehired anyone after the mass layoffs?

It is crazy how fast the city went to crap though. Could probably film a Silent Hill type movie there. It also shows what can happen when a city relies on only one single industry. My city is in the same boat actually, relies only on gold. If price of gold were to crash we'd be in trouble. We used to have lumber but for some reason that died. All the mills shut down.
 
Raze the abandoned buildings that are too expensive to refurb or retask, condemnable homes, remove the contaminated soil, retask that land for parks or development, cleanup the river front (and the river itself), and gentrify the declining neighborhoods to force-out the remaining Section 8 dwellers and hood rats out due to high rents. Yeah, it will come back, but NOT until then.
 
tcsenter said:
Raze the abandoned buildings that are too expensive to refurb or retask, condemnable homes, remove the contaminated soil, retask that land for parks or development, cleanup the river front (and the river itself), and gentrify the declining neighborhoods to force-out the remaining Section 8 dwellers and hood rats out due to high rents. Yeah, it will come back, but NOT until then.
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Elimination of section-8 housing is the best thing we can do for both the black community and the US overall.
 
a lot of the old buildings and factories could probably be fixed up while keeping them rustic (I love old buildings that has been fixed up while retaining their "oldness"), the rest should torn down and most of it given back to nature, then get rid of the hood rats and perpetually poor and you could turn it into a pretty nice and cool place to live.

they could probably get a shitload of money from various government agencies and programs to help with the cleanup if they were smart about how they played the system.
 
They should stick a couple large scale nuclear reactors there, it would create jobs too. Basically make it some huge nuclear project to add more power to the grid. Too bad people are so scared of nuclear, and seem to not notice all the oil disasters that happen everywhere, while nuclear hums away without any incident, and no pollution.

Meanwhile in Canada, we're building a bridge to Detroit, because of all the business opportunities. 😀
 
The city has been on the decline ever since white people started leaving the inner city in the 60s. Why would it turn around now? Crime statistics for black people are appallin, and Detroit is 83% (IIRC) black. It will not get better any time soon.

The only way for Detroit to become a great place again would be to bulldoze the buildings, let it become fields again, and make it an agriculture/sustained development hub.
 
Racism and partisan hackery, and we're not even 50 posts in? Yeah, this thread is going to P&N.

Haven't been to Detroit in a long time, but I have seen plenty of urban blight here in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, while traveling for work. They seem to always put up Dollar General's in these areas.
 
Red Squirrel said:
They should stick a couple large scale nuclear reactors there, it would create jobs too. Basically make it some huge nuclear project to add more power to the grid. Too bad people are so scared of nuclear, and seem to not notice all the oil disasters that happen everywhere, while nuclear hums away without any incident, and no pollution.

Meanwhile in Canada, we're building a bridge to Detroit, because of all the business opportunities. 😀
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:hmm:

Not a bad idea really. Maybe they should live up to its name as the motor city and go full on electric.
 
qtnguyen87 said:
i blame it on the union.....they almost took the twinkies away.......i believe union workers are either stupid or retarted.....
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But when a union controls as much of a city as they did/do in Detroit, every one elected to office is basically a union puppet.

That's how the pensions got set up so nice for everyone.
 
The unions didn't design cars no one wanted to buy. The unions didn't bribe Congress to open US markets to foreign dumping. Corrupt national politics and international labor arbitrage leveled Detroit as sure as corrupt local politics did.
 
IronWing said:
The unions didn't design cars no one wanted to buy. The unions didn't bribe Congress to open US markets to foreign dumping. Corrupt national politics and international labor arbitrage leveled Detroit as sure as corrupt local politics did.
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^ lol, UAW.txt

Unions inflated their wages to 2x what they should have been, which they admitted when they offered buyouts so they could replace workers with people making HALF as much, once they were faced with going under.

And most the jobs were lost to places like Kentucky, and Mississippi, which run successful non union plants. Foreign companies are setting up factories in the USA, while the big three had no choice but to open plants abroad to stay competitive. Go figure.
 
Eureka said:
Try Camden, NJ for a pretty bad urban decay, too.

I remember seeing a building there, painted all black with white crosses, and someone painted on the side "Oh God, we cry for Camden". Pretty stark.

Here's a good article on that: http://www.thenation.com/article/155801/city-ruins?page=0,1
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The police force for Camden, according to my friends who live in and around the area, is pretty much nonexistent. For the amount of crime that happens in Camden, they don't have nearly enough police to stop it. Some crimes literally just aren't worth the police time.

Camden is pretty screwed as well.
 
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