America's Fallen Cities: Detroit

[@streetscaping]

At its peak, America used to have the world's most beautiful cities with the best mass transit systems. Shame that so much has been lost.

[@skurinski]

lol no. Europe always had more beautiful cities

[@jaksonandray]

​@@skurinskiEuropean cities are ugly lol

[@TonyBMW]

Steady decline

[@TonyBMW]

@@skurinskithat’s subjective. I live in a Region of Germany where most of old architectures have been burned, bombed and ransacked over the centuries. Now what’s left here are mostly ruins and post war buildings. You really have to seek out these old buildings that are still somewhat intact.

[@chradikaali]

​@@TonyBMWThe destruction of German cities and their civilians at the end of the war was excessive and fits into the definition of a war crime, although the allied forces were never accused. In any case, German cities represent postwar urbanisation and lost history. Countries that were not bombarded to the ground (or destroyed by the Soviet occupiers) still have those historical districts and unique designs, and are arguably the most beautiful cities in the world.

[@pietervoogt]

Detroit Institute of Arts is still a famous museum among art lovers.

[@schonkable]

I feel that Detroit is becoming more and more vibrant. The restoration of the Michigan Central Railroad building is a classic example.

[@laurawalker3403]

I think it rose, and then fell, and now it’s slowly “rising” again…but Idk. It’s gonna be a long journey

[@EdwardM-t8p]

But will it ever serve trains again?

[@schonkable]

@ probably not.

[@LiamMeehan-rq7kz]

The houses at the time stand 0:33 were actually both renovated and are beautiful again! The area around them was built up too

[@LiamMeehan-rq7kz]

They're more in the frame 0:32, I don't know about the house in 0:33 but likely it was also fixed!

[@alexanderrotmensz]

Great to hear!

[@unheard-ofgamer1510]

YIIPPPEEEE

[@leefromda3135]

Born and raised Detroiter. Thank you for making this. I worked downtown for years with bedrock. Had the privilege of exploring old buildings downtown while on the clock. Have stories of family about the city in its hey day. It’s a tragedy. I blame the big 3, corrupt politicians and urban renewal. Detroit isn’t quitting. We’re not going anywhere. It’s not what it was but we will rise again.

[@diodelvino3048]

Its already starting to make a bigger comeback than ever, theres been alot of revitalization projects and more on the way, plus the population stagnated for the first time in decades recently. Some other rust belt cities like Cleveland and Buffalo are also on this trend.

[@ginog5037]

Blame that pos Coleman Young.

[@JdeC1994]

@@diodelvino3048 Has the comeback been great enough that you moved into Detroit proper? Or are you yet ANOTHER booster from the suburbs/rural Michigan that's never actually lived in Detroit (and never will)?

[@phoebe_cincotta]

It’s crazy how our parents and grandparents just gave up on our cities… did really no one care at the time?

[@shivtim]

They were just racist

[@VainakhQuranites]

They had no choice, do you realize the race riots that were happening during that time?

[@LLachs283]

No they didnt. And they blame their children and grandchildren for being desillusioned and lazy.

[@annwilliams6438]

Voting for politicians who were saying ‘as little tax as possible’, especially for the uber rich… No taxes, no infrastructure.

[@JdeC1994]

@@annwilliams6438 OH, PLEAAASE! 🙄🙄 Detroit has been a Republican stronghold? Detroit hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1-2-1962. Actually, this is the deal: no preferable demographics, no infrastructure (or safety, prosperity, tranquility, etc.).

[@douglasharley2440]

i grew up in lansing, michigan during the 1970s, and we used to visit detroit every year almost for a vacation...it was right at the beginning of the rapid acceleration of its dramatic downfall. they were still doing big projects like rencen, but they were turgid, and essentially stillborn. boblo island was still popular, and so was belle isle. _all_ the auto industry-tied cities in the lower pennisula basically collapsed within 30 years...lansing, flint, detroit, all shells of their former glory...but scrappy, and on the up! thanks for this video, and also not omitting the mention of detroit's ongoing growth and increase in vitality.

[@MSportsEngineering]

This video could've been great, but instead it was ruined by a false and dramatic representation of Detroit today. Up to 2012, much of what was said about the city would've been true but there has been non-stop improvement to the city since then. Those empty skyscrapers mentioned: restored and full of residents and businesses. Those $1 homes: long gone as many of the neighborhoods (i.e. Brush Park) were rebuilt and repopulated. Detroit is now surging with art, culture, cuisine, and life. Sure it has a ways to go, but it's nothing like what the sensationalist creator tried to show.

[@markdark]

More people need to read your comment, because this is nothing but more detroit ruin porn and failed narrative

[@michaelwright1295]

That and also getting butthurt over centuries old, decrepit, and unsafe houses and buildings being replaced by cheaper and more efficient ones. Safety and efficiency before aestetics, ALWAYS. this is exactly what Jane Jacobs was talking about when she called the city beautiful movement an architectural design cult. We're seeing a resurgence of snobbery and glass hatred and it sucks ass.

[@Ponchoed]

@MSportsEngineering Agreed, I visited in 2007 and 2008, it was awful and depressing. I just revisited and Detroit was one of the most exciting, energetic, joyful, friendly, optimistic cities I've experienced in awhile, I am so eager to return. Has the vibe of Portland in the 2000s, so much creative energy and new exciting things opening daily.

[@jaqdaw]

yea this video is garbage. living in detroit for the past 4 years i've been lucky to see its resurgence. there are flaws much like any other city but like i'm constantly walking downtown for work and leisure and it's been great. there's not only new developments like hudson's site but renovations of older skyscrapers like the book tower and michigan central that honor this wonderful city's history and point toward a great future.

[@jonahkaz]

He’s not saying that Detroit has nothing going for it, he’s just showing how great the city once was and what decades of modernist car-centric urban planning did to the city. While it may be coming back, it would’ve never had to come back as hard if they hadn’t torn down over half the city

[@7878-x5w]

I just visited at the beginning of August. I loved the city! Go see the Guardian and Fisher Buildings. The waterfront and Belle Isle have some of the best views I’ve ever seen!

[@TheLiamster]

The decline of all of these cities is so sad to see

[@unheard-ofgamer1510]

"Paris of the West" BROKE my heart because I know we'll be hard pressed to ever get that title back seeing as new urban development doesn't hold even a torch most the time to the architectural beauty of the past. I miss it, and I wasn't even a part of it. RIP old Detroit. Want em to come back but it'll never be the same if they continue to blatantly ignore their architectural heritage. Also funny thing with the beautiful homes lining main streets is that that's like everywhere in Michigan it seems. At least in Saginaw and Bay City, the Mid-Michigan past powerhouses of industry (recommend looking at Saginaw it's like a damn micro Detroit)

[@unheard-ofgamer1510]

Also fuck racism.

[@greysnake2903]

It's tiring to call a city that is so beautiful compared to Paris.

[@annwilliams6438]

Have you seen Paris lately? Yuck.

[@unheard-ofgamer1510]

@@annwilliams6438 nah but that's not rly relevant to this because the time this would be said was decades ago. How's it so yucky tho? There's some decent bike infrastructure being constructed and some decent urbanism with it, so other than trash and homelessness (that lower skyline has costs), it seems fine.

[@mergat2970]

Detroit isnt as rich as today as it was in the past. so although the new development isnt as pretty as development during the early 1900s, its honestly better than nothing. Anything is good to fill those empty spaces and parking lots tbh

[@monshosepu9229]

I love your content! Please never stop!!!

[@maximilianbreall]

I agree

[@alexanderrotmensz]

I don’t plan on it!

[@Avinkwep]

This is a fantastic series

[@indiekiddrugpatrol3117]

American cities back then looked very similar to British ones like Manchester or Glasgow. Even though many British cities have decimated their architecture its mental how much further Americans went and how shit their cities came as a result.

[@epicsseven7686]

It wasn't just the richest city in the country at the time. It was the richest city in the world.

[@cartermoberg3092]

Please tell the full story: This thumbnail is miss leading. Yes of course the city center is going to densify over the course of 100 years. Also just about all the intro clips are from about 15 years ago, and completely out of date. Yes a lot of this story is true. Yes the city was ravaged by the construction freeways, but this bleak and depressing story is not what the story is today. Downtown, in all of its surrounding neighborhoods are bustling places full of new development. Yes the neighborhood need a LOT of work, but if your going tell a story about Detroit please tell the full story. Like what’s happening today. We are removing freeways, making trails, and implementing better design constantly. Yes there is a ton more to do, but the regrowth is exciting!

[@cartermoberg3092]

An I get not being a fan of modernism. I’m an architect, I get it. But the old can simply not be copied today. It would look phony and fake, if we tried to replicate it full stop

[@alexanderrotmensz]

Every building in the thumbnail minus one is no longer standing today. And it would not at all look phony and fake to bring back classical architecture-it would be beautiful!

[@cartermoberg3092]

@@alexanderrotmensz it can be classically inspired but we can agree to disagree. But in terms of the thumbnail, I though the frame was facing another direction. But still so, most those were replaced with much larger gorgeous skyscrapers. Do your eyes a favor and look up the guardian building it’s gorgeous. It’s nicknamed the cathedral of finance. 1920ish Aztec art deco inspired skyscrapers. I will give you credit for the old City Hall, that one’s replacement is ugly.

[@alexanderrotmensz]

I’m happy to compromise w you there :)

[@sergpie]

@@cartermoberg3092 What do you think of the philharmonic building constructed in Nashville? Anything phony about their application of classical orders and elements of design?

[@spreadthetruth90]

this city now just has a car manufacturing tower (well, 5 of them in one giant building), a few high-rises, a bridge and the rest is a ghost town with some lively ghettos

[@peppermint23]

One thing I appreciate about living in NYC is how we've kept so much, if not most, of our historic and beautiful architecture and maintained walkability, giving it a more European feel. This is also true for historic downtown Annapolis, which is thriving with art, culture and entertainment and remains a highly trafficked tourist destination in large part because of said architectural charm.

[@EPMTUNES]

Great video. Those mansions are seriously incredible.

[@HabitualJoker]

Downtown is flourishing, but this is a good look at how the surrounding areas have gone downhill.

[@organicwisdom2204]

Detroit is a top 5 tourist city 2024, top 3 downtown, and #1 Ice rink and Christmas lights of 2024. One of my favorite cities to visit

[@pmn2821]

Detroit, once designated the model city for the WORLD. So, so very, very sad.

[@Martyisruling]

I like that you bring in a new perspective to the public discussion of urban decline. One that isn't talked about in media, but only really among urban planners. The down side of highways, the lack of public transit and the problems with parking lots. There have been some really great mass transit proposals over the years for Michigan (and I'm sure other States), but it never gains any traction. Perhaps if the media and more people discussed what happens when you have too much space in cities devoted to freeways and parking, that would change.

[@ravimediatube]

i thin kthis is a rising city. see: michighan central station, and many other buildings being made NOw

[@alexanderrotmensz]

There’s are some positive signs for sure. But the modernist crap being built is unfortunate.

[@user-cvbnm]

That's good news, yet this will take many decades to fully restore Detroit

[@Jay_Hona]

love ur channel man

[@caleblaw3497]

I live in San Francisco and I hope SF won't become the next Detroit, with high crime rate, drug & homelessness, and high-tech jobs moving away as people working from home and company moving to states with lower tax

[@skurinski]

it will. Keep voting blue no matter who...

[@AshleySpeaks4U]

Thank you SO much for making this. VERY interesting and telling.

[@LepinayAlix]

So sad it's gone....

[@tonywestvirginia]

Born and raised in Detroit in the 60's-70's, I cry.

[@Knightmessenger]

Some areas have gotten better since the photos were taken. 0:30 is Brush Park, now a mixed use neighborhood that looks more like 9:15 0:40 New City Club Apartments (10:51) have been built on this empty lot that was once the Statler Hotel. You can actually see the building complete in the previous photo of the downtown parking lots. (one of which is being turned into a Univ of Michigan complex) 7:18 This is 375 where it ends on Jefferson Ave under construction. This freeway is scheduled to be removed. 7:57 Fisher Body Plant very prominent near the 94-75 interchange. Work has begun on turning this into apartments. Lot of junk already hauled away. 8:08 North Corktown is showing signs of life with new townhomes and a development on Ash St, as indicated by the map at 3:44 9:04 Gratiot is under plans to get a road diet and wider sidewalks.

[@jessebruner398]

Lots of super super outdated info here. Kinda expected more. Most of the places you showed to demonstrate how it's "desolate" are no longer like that. Detroit has started seeing population growth. It's certainly not empty any more. Crime has been dropping consistently. Amenities are sooo much better than 2013. Better than the suburbs, actually. Most of the abandoned neighborhoods are gone. They're torn down to make way for new development. It's like you made this video to hop on the 2013 Detroit bandwagon but haven't really made an accurate video for 2024 Detroit. Super disappointing. Not to say the whole video is bad or your points aren't valid. But it's just kicking a city that is doing more right than most other cities in America in 2024, tbh

[@alexanderrotmensz]

Whether we like it or not, Detroit is still far from its glory days and that story needs to be told. I also am reluctant to praise modernist development, though of course it is better than nothing.

[@JdeC1994]

Uh, Mr. Booster, Detroit has lost 2/3rds of its population! 🙄🙄 Have you actually moved into Detroit proper, or would you admit that you've always lived in the suburbs (and always will)?

[@fritzlang4941]

Detroit still loses population and hasn't attracted any meaningful company.

[@WOLFBLACKSTORM25]

It’s not as bad anymore. It’s actually thriving.

[@SuperYacub]

The old city hall is actually still there, just unoccupied. I used to walk by it every day to work in the Chase building. That light-green building was right next door, and it is HIDEOUS

[@Knightmessenger]

8:45 is Old City Hall. Demolished in 1961, the light green building took its place in 2006. You might be thinking of the Wayne County Building which is still standing and has a very similar style.

[@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva]

Here before this video blows up - and rightfully so if that's the case.

[@davelowe1977]

50 miles of continuous urban sprawl?!

[@mdenmark604]

Your main point about taking a look back to be inspired is very true.....beauty and grace in architecture is key.....

[@DavidSmith-xs3or]

Detroit isnt unique when it came to black flight from the south, racism and urban decay. In the days of Jim Crow, racial discrimination policies existed just about everywhere in this country -from the 19th century, on into the mid-20th century.

[@PhantasyStarved]

Thanks for your hard work, but the whole Downfall of Detroit thing is the deadest of dead horses at this point. There's a thousand of these videos on KZbin. Someone needs to make a video chronicling the comeback, both the good and the bad, that would have been original content. The city's doing much better these days but not without controversy: contaminated demolition sites, millions of federal funding gone missing, contracts being given out to undeserving companies, records of financial expenditures that don't match each other, and even with that and much more it's still a massive IMPROVEMENT over the Kwame days. I just saw new pavement in a remote outer neighborhood yesterday and was like, whoa. Are fresh roads even allowed out here lol

[@EdwardM-t8p]

I was a pre-teen when my family lived in a baby exurb outside of Detroit, near the town of Milford, late 1969 to early 1971. The city was still in reasonably good sorts with 1-1/2 million people despite all the exways the state rammed through it. Now it's 2/3rds empty with only 600 thousand, less than Boston a city 1/3rd Detroit's size. What a travesty that it was allowed to be hollowed out like that!

[@brandenburton2524]

Take out huge swaths of empty blocks around the Packard Plant turn it into outdoor park with Mountain bike trails, disc golf, and walking trails you expect from a state or metro park. Detroit has parks but not the real outdoorsy oriented.

[@Knightmessenger]

That would be a better idea for the former Rogell Golf course. It already has hills

[@redline3036]

Gotta bring people back that takes tax payers and Detroit just doesn’t have that.

[@adambuesser6264]

What are the steps of reversing this trend?

[@JJarosze9595]

One of the most crucial steps for Detroit's future is diversifying its industries instead of continuing to rely heavily on manufacturing like it has for decades. Right now, the focus seems to be on electric cars from the big three automakers, but I think that's a bit short-sighted. Other states like Texas and California are becoming increasingly competitive in car manufacturing, and China has pretty much set the global standard for electric vehicles. If Detroit wants to thrive, it needs to embrace other job-creating industries like tech and finance for example. The city also needs to figure out what makes Detroit the place to invest in for these industries, especially compared to regions in the South that are doing really well right now- simply being cheap really is not enough. After its economy is established, then it has to worry about things like schools, public transit and services, housing, etc.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

@@JJarosze9595I know that you said they should focus less on manufacturing, but if we’re going to have a revival of passenger rail transport in the US, we cannot rely totally on foreign companies establishing factories here. We should have some domestic companies start here to fill that demand, and Detroit could benefit from having something like Budd’s Red Lion Plant in Philadelphia. Probably especially so for domestic merchant shipbuilding; I could see there being more use of our inland waterways if we built ourselves enough ships for that. Neither of these have a lot of competition, but they are important if the United States is going to have a robust transportation network. But I guess finance would be an easier start, unless another Depression hits in the next few years.

[@niksutliff]

There is not much that can be done. Detroit exists where it is because it was a great place for an industrial city. Those days are done. There is and will remain to be economic potential, but it has to be in technology, education, healthcare, and other services - where other us cities (even nearby ones) have big advantages over Detroit. 😊

[@DiamondKingStudios]

@@niksutliff I know we’ve moved on from an industrial economy, but to keep up our current way of life, things are still going to need to be manufactured on large scales in complex facilities, and it can’t all come from the South or from overseas. At least, it ought not to.

[@alexanderrotmensz]

Bring back some of the older buildings, especially where there’s just empty plots of land. Build it and they will come. Unfortunately a lot of money that’s being spent on rebuilding is churning out typical modernist boringness.

[@vinfacts11]

Thoughts of cities that are mid-way between "fallen" and "rising", where they have both modernist and traditional buildings like NY, Chicago, Philly, Boston etc?

[@alexanderrotmensz]

There's a whole other category that would have to be made for that. I'm still figuring out what it would be called.

[@ArthursLittleWorld]

8:53-8:55 it's so hilariously dumb... Oh god, what did I just see 😂🤣 just for you to understand, I'm stuck for like 20 minutes right now trying to comprehend what I saw and still can't find words to write here and describe one of the dumbest things I saw in my life

[@AbstractEntityJ]

It would be interesting if you did a video on Baltimore or New Orleans. Both of those cities are interesting cases, because they've experienced many of the same problems as the cities in the other videos in this series, but they've also managed to preserve much more of their historic architecture. So, they're a bit of a double-edged sword, and they can vary drastically from neighborhood to neighborhood. The same can also be said of Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington DC, NYC, Boston, and San Francisco to varying degrees, but I find in New Orleans and Baltimore, the contrasts are the most dramatic.

[@marcusberns3746]

I always think the same thing during the before and afters: how could they do this to us?

[@johnwilliamspappas456]

Nostalgia fan here I love all the old sketches and photos definitely worth watching .Thumbs Up And subscribe 😅my compliments to the narrator

[@ohiofirebuff2279]

Doing one on Brooklyn, New York, especially the Downtown section would be really great, the highways destroyed everything.

[@StLouis-yu9iz]

Great video as usual, but still not a tragic as the potential currently being unrealized here in StL. 😕 Also, I totally blame the people too afraid to move back to cities. I thought that is literally your entire point highlighting these before and after images

[@stephaniestephers4586]

Go to 3:22 to skip the ad.

[@dulio12385]

Well Detroit asked for it; They've been voting for the same party for 50 years.

[@shaunmarshall8114]

Would you happen to know who migrated north to Detroit from the South? Could that have anything to do with the decline of the inner cities?

[@epicsseven7686]

Rednecks who kept the city segregated, which led to riots. And wyts making an exodus to the suburbs due racial entitlement

[@jebbush532]

@@epicsseven7686 Not wanting to be mugged/murdered = racial entitlement.

[@Michael-rr7um]

Cars will do a number on cities. I feel like Detroit is ground zero for that.

[@markuserikssen]

This is a rather depressing video, I must say. Hopefully Detroit will return to its old glory one day!

[@oliverzigmund239]

I really love your videos. Could you please do Kansas City.

[@tsnovak20]

We need new wave of urban planners

[@Elijah-d8q]

I would like to say now the downtown is very nice, especially with all the major stadiums being downtown

[@dito7347]

Detroit is making a huge comeback. Just look at their Football Team the Lions lmaoo. The city deserves all the good karma heading their way. Those people have gone through everything, and still manage to push the city forward. As a Baltimorean, my respect to Detroit

[@Old_Hickory_Jackson]

Detroit has every right to start the villain arc. Rest of the US abandoned the city like that in its desperate times.

[@mrh6431]

Even with all that revitalization Detroit is still a fallen city???????

[@markweaver1012]

Well, it still has just 1/3rd of its peak population.

[@musical_hola7703]

you should go on with this type of videos!!

[@grumbogee1772]

here before a bunch of boomers come in and complain about progressives

[@wtice4632]

*regressives

[@daveweiss5647]

I am no boomer... but "Urban Renewal" and "Modern architecture" were 2 of the 5 reasons fi enin this very video and they were 100% very "progressive" idealogy in the 1950s 1960s and 1970s when Ammerican cities were destroyed....

[@grumbogee1772]

@@daveweiss5647 this is a very stupid take and i can only assume your house is saturated with lead. get the help you need

[@bananaspamock]

imagine thinking a pathological need to change/destroy what works because you need to satisfy your own ego is "progressive"

[@thomastoscano1787]

They’re right though

[@johnmc67]

No it is not all gone. The tall building to the right, Daniel Burnham’s Dime building, still stands. As does the other tall white building mid pic, his Ford building, as does the Soldiers & Sailors monument…wiki ass bullshit.

[@tann_man]

6:05 "The high trust society that had mansions built along its boulevards was quickly fleeting" if this isn't an absolute indictment of a multi-ethnic republics I don't know what is. As soon as the blacks migrated to Detroit everything went downhill.

[@Knightmessenger]

Detroit has always been multi ethnic. Where do you think names like Poletown, Corktown, Mexicantown, Chinatown and Greektown originated from? Even the timeframe of when many African Americans migrated from the south, doesn't line up with the massive drop in population. There's probably a better correlation between the increasing affordability of videotape and population loss. Putting lead in gas probably did most to dissolve the high trust society. Because we now know that caused the crime wave of the 1960s-80s.

[@playlistiphone8743]

Robocop predicted this back in the 80s

[@LauraMattox]

guys, the city is slowly growing.

[@fritzlang4941]

no, it's lost population since 2020

[@karlstrauss2330]

If it can happen to Detroit, it can happen anywhere

[@Ponchoed]

This is a great series but I think you downplay how much Detroit has really turned around big time, despite being the poster child for urban decline for over half a century. I just visited, the changes over the last 5-10 years in particular are spectacular.

[@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva]

Can you give some examples? I'm not from the U.S. but heard some good stories, but I have no idea what exactly is improving.

[@shivtim]

@@HighFlyingOwlOfMinervaI was there last month after not having visited since 2012. Some new things I noticed included a new light rail transit line, new residential and university buildings, new shopping downtown (H&M, local shops), new hockey arena, many new restaurants, renovated historic buildings turned into hotels, completely renovated convention center, new riverfront bicycle and pedestrian trail, and the state’s new tallest skyscraper under construction.

[@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva]

@@shivtim Are the new buildings good looking? Because my city also has many skyscrapers but having a bunch of ugly modernist buildings and skyscrapers only the rich can afford isn't exactly something good in my eyes.

[@Ponchoed]

@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva Mostly it's beautiful restorations of spectacular early 20th century commercial and civic buildings... Michigan Central Station, Book Tower, David Whitney Building, Shinola Hotel, The Siren/Wurlitzer Building, Metropolitan Building/Elements Hotel (abandoned since 1979) to name a few. For new construction, the Hudsons Block is a step above most new construction today, its a glass modernist building by SHoP but is detailed very well, parking is underground, has some nice textural elements on the facade. Campus Martius Park is fantastic as is the rebuilt Capitol Park, Washington Blvd promenade, and the new Beacon Park. Q line streetcar is good, goes where you want to go, nice simple straight shot down Woodward Ave from Riverfront to New Center (should have been built down the center of Woodward though).

[@Ponchoed]

Also the restaurants downtown are fantastic, great food, great decor inside and street appeal outside with Parisian Cafe seating.

[@MrFullService]

Bridge photo at 6:38 is, I believe, Cleveland.

[@alminsk4952]

I grew up in Detroit and you should have given a shout out to the original Tiger stadium almost every great ball player played there in the 20th century and they couldn't have saved it as an historical landmark? Grosse isle?

[@Janiprox]

I wonder if there's any connection between rapid expansion and rapid decline. I feel like Detroit was built on nothing much really, so it was easily disposed of

[@Knightmessenger]

Yes actually, a high percentage of land annexed by Detroit in the 1920s, but not developed until after WW2 was built with an extremely high % of single family housing.

[@chasejennings9865]

music at the 1 minute mark. dankpods

[@KutZoru]

I was watching your videos and other about early 1900s streets and buildings with my 8-yo son. He asked me why everything is such ugly today😂 BTW: a lot of your viewers miss the point. They start to discuss old buildings and everything bad about them: wiring, rats, wooden floors, etc. BUT: it is about human-scale design in a first place. But somehow it’s such a problem to see other options… I’m a petrolhead, but oh boy, I wish we had such infrastructure like the Netherlands does. ❤

[@wigs666]

Tax people more and invest that money.

[@jcasey6497]

can you do cleveland!?

[@NERPolitan]

eleven minute video where several minutes are just an ad

[@alexanderrotmensz]

1 minute 45 seconds in an 11 minute video is pretty normal

[@shivtim]

Gotta pay the bills. You have a better idea?

[@haydencutrone6443]

Detroit could be saved demolish all the abandoned homes and turn them into parks and build some modern condos and urban towns in other areas around

[@User37123-l]

is that an s chassis 0:15

[@melangesvolatils6506]

Did Ford was the bad guy of the movie ?

[@Gorki1848]

What Corporate devotion does to city

[@haydencutrone6443]

Toronto is one of the better North American cities has a decent growing subway system and good regional transit being go transit and still has street cars and buses that run throughout the whole city and subways connect major city hubs

[@bradybake]

Do Cleveland please

[@exenderlloyd7750]

Is noticing allowed?

[@markweaver1012]

No, Detroit wasn't killed by highways and cars. All of America's major cities implemented urban expressways. And not only that, the generally southern cities that have experienced the greatest growth during recent decades (e.g. Phoenix) are very car-centric. Also, you have to keep in mind that the people left the city of Detroit, but not the region. The overall metro area is significantly larger now than it was when the city of Detroit was at its peak. And it wasn't the decline of the auto industry that killed Detroit either -- Detroit underwent its initial steep decline during a period when the US auto industry was humming. That decline started in 1950 and the city had already lost 20-25% of its population by the mid 1970s. Cities really aren't places for factories any more -- Chicago and New York both once had huge manufacturing footprints and that's nearly all gone. But those cities successfully made the transition to a services economy which Detroit failed to do. Nothing about the destruction of Detroit was intentional or systematic. It was the result of a million+ people voting for greener pastures with their feet. Moving generally only a few miles to growing suburbs with lower crime, lower taxes, better schools, new homes, and more green space. And, yes, racial conflict was a factor (but that, too, was not unique to the city). Nonetheless, after the calamitous 1967 riots, the exodus that had already been underway since 1950 became a torrent. And the factors that lead people to leave in the first place (high crime, lousy schools, high taxes) are dissuading most people in the region from moving back in. Downtown has recovered significantly (most of the empty high-rises have been rehabbed), but most of the neighborhoods (some so sparsely populated that they look almost rural) have not.

[@OskarWilder]

lol thanks for showing 30 seconds of what Detroit actually looks like in the last 30 seconds and not just the ruin porn scattered throughout the rest of this. Honestly the “Detroit is a fallen city” narrative is so overdone at this point. A quick Google search will show you that the city has entered a new chapter. But that content wouldn’t get as much engagement and wouldn’t make you as much money.

[@GuyOtto-me8zc]

Exactly right, this video is so slanted.

[@Ejoel07]

Can’t have shit in Detroit

[@alidemirbas6566]

The same will happen to the car industry cities of Germany. 15 years ago, while hiking near the wealthy suburbs of Stuttgart, one millionaire's mansion next to the other, the thought crossed my mind, that Stuttgart will become the next Detroit. The whole metropolitan area is depending on cumbustion cars industry. Motors, gears, mechanics, control units, everything. The people are arrogant, have earned too much for decades and are not willing to replace their cash cows by modern electric car industry. They lived in pure disbelief this would last foreever or they would be retired when all collapses.

[@l.a.crenshaw5952]

Detroit-Destroit

[@HerrBrutal-bl2fk]

With all of the advanced technology (Western) Europe has, like for instance soon being able to produce electricity from fusion power on a grand scale, superior aeroplanes, cars, trains and engineering in general, I wonder what will become of backward nations like Russia and China. In those countries, a free exchange of ideas is a concept seen with suspicion. At best. Within two decades, even many Indian cities will appear like Zurich, Stockholm and Frankfurt compared to Chinese and Russian cities in fast Detroit-like decline. Mark my words.

[@amandadejesus9611]

Thank u Government u ruined America 😂😂I just wanna receipt for where my tax $ goes

[@alanmclenon9703]

All of this is not gone, little over the top on the hyperbole.

[@chargeminecraft]

If you are going to have 1/5 of your short video dedicated to sponsor, please put them at the end. Thanks.

[@CarlosParraOnate]

Just skip ahead bro 🤣

[@sergpie]

More like 13.2%, but okay. You can always fast forward.

[@TheOzzyMartin1]

the instant disappointment of a lazy exploitative piece of garbage, when it’s civic, federal, planners, and financial stakeholders failed what could have been a great metropolis

[@TheOzzyMartin1]

i mean this video. there are so many reasons why detroit struggles but focusing on crime and pretending it isn’t a direct symptom is disappointing

[@codyjarrett9685]

White flight?

[@jonathanglzplz894]

Acticar subtitulos

[@SFbandit77]

Can people focus on the future of Detroit and not the past?

[@alexanderrotmensz]

Very few people are aware of how much American cities have changed in the past 70 years

[@monoinsomniac]

To understand how we got here we need to understand the past and realize it’s not always been this way in America.

[@SFbandit77]

@@alexanderrotmensz bro did not need to add to the Detroit videos

[@onenickthomas]

Youre more than a little late on this one.

[@HarveyJohnWillmott]

The decline of the western world is insane. I blame it on fractional reserve banking, and manufacturing being sent to China making us all poorer.

[@shadowtiger2363]

When the history is gone what is there to look at oh a screen and worship a bunch of people who could care less about them and complain how crap things are oh and keep embracing technology 😂😂😂 enjoy.

[@amagedonrenacimiento686]

El cambio demográfico está afectando negativamente a USA..

[@ezioaugustus2621]

This video is trash, you know nothing about current Detroit or past really.