🕒 The time-lapse history of Detroit in 8 minutes 🕔

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Early settlers: 0:22 Auto age: 2:32 Urban decline: 4:00 Reverse time-lapse: 7:03 Credits: 8:33
This film traces Detroit’s evolution from its origins as a French trading post in the 1700s, to its explosion as a metropolis, followed by its precipitous decline as a symbol of America’s post-industrial urban landscape. The film weaves in details about the city’s politics, population, and technology - all of which influenced the city’s geography and built environment. At each phase in urban history, the built environment grew and was modified in direct response to political events like racial segregation, population changes like the Great Migration, technology developments like the mass-produced car, and government interventions like urban renewal.
Created in gratitude to the University of Michigan’s PhD program in architecture
Music by Philip Glass, "Pruitt Igoe" from the 1983 film Koyaanisqatsi

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@Pro-Deo 6 ай бұрын

In the 1800s Detroit was labeled the most beautiful city in America. I used to have a 1st hand edition of the book made back then by Silas Farmer, the cities Historiographer and published in 1884. It had the history of Wayne County and Detroit and illustrations of every house on Woodward, Jefferson Ave and so many other streets including their addresses, who lived there at the time the book was made and year the house was made. It also had businesses and illustrations of them and their addresses and even more like wars, battles, manners, customs and marriage laws. It had over a thousand illustrations and over 1400 pages. The book was completely mind blowing. Especially the illustrations of the houses. There's perhaps 4 or 5 of the houses still in existence from back then.

@bobbeezel2593 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Detroit in the 70s and 80s. My grandparents immigrated from Italy there in the 30s and what a huge difference there was from when they owned their first home in 1945 vs. me having to enter high school as one of THREE WHITE kids in 1988! Good times...good times for some...not especially great for me till I got out of there in my twenties

@Mw-tr2oz Жыл бұрын

Yep, the blacks destroyed that city. Osborn class of 85.

@bobbeezel2593 Жыл бұрын

@@Mw-tr2oz Finney High ‘92

@barronspears7918 Жыл бұрын

@@Mw-tr2oz it was Democrats in unions that Destroyed Detroit our greedy unions demands drove businesses elsewhere but Detroit don't blame the auto industry in don't blame the black people

@chrisadams416 Жыл бұрын

@@bobbeezel2593 did you know Noel Motley?

@penderyn8794 Жыл бұрын

America used to be light brown skin. It's only white because of European colonialism

@johnpenley 3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding! I'm a hobbyist Detroit historian. Utterly love this clip.👍🏽

@thezenarcher 3 жыл бұрын

What an immense work. Really terrific.

@junkman7426 9 ай бұрын

I think you summarized things well. There are SO MANY HEAVY HITTER THOUGH that I wish you could include soo much more. 1943 riots were a big one too. I really loved when the music intensified with Henry Ford's quadricycle. That was a nice touch. Also, wish you had a map that showed the location of Fort Shelby over the wagon spoke map. It's pretty cool to see where it once was.

@MylesZhang 9 ай бұрын

This is a thoughtful comment and observation. Thank you.

@mrpotential11 11 ай бұрын

The voice at the end scared the hell out of me 😂

@ManicMindTrick Жыл бұрын

Outstanding job on this video. Keep it up. Shame it only garnered 15k views in a year but good quality work will eventually find an audience (unless youtube shadow-bans your content).

@morbital 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video!

@PinetopJackson2 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful maps, great video!

@KCCardCo 3 ай бұрын

Starting in 1915 the demeanor and tensions of the South started coming north. In 1900 Detroit was a peaceful and prosperous place. Cultures weren't fighting with each other. Read the last chapter of "The Morans 150 years in Detroit" by John Bell Moran.

@edworld97 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing video! If you ever do one of Rio de Janeiro, i would be forever grateful.

@richardzhou2162 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@MylesZhang 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Richard!

@hazchemel 11 ай бұрын

Really well done. Strong example of a narrative lens along a timeline. It's not history though, because history doesn't strap you into an amusement park pod riding along a rail. This is more like The History Experience, The Story of History.

@yaboistuds7087 3 жыл бұрын

First, Great work!

@user-jk8xd3dc3g 12 күн бұрын

Detroit is perhaps the coolest American City. It has a well laid out downtown with iconic Woodward enveloping Campus Martius Park with music in the air, right downtown, surrounded by a free monorail, very green too. Bundle this in with Strait and the boats and the ever present sound of Motown in the back ground there is nothing else like it. Perhaps most of all Dtwah has captured the imagination, why we still talk about it so much.

@jackjohnston5317 Жыл бұрын

It's interesting that the song is called "Pruitt Igoe" which was an urban housing project in St. Louis (where I live). I noticed a lot of similarities between Detroit and St. Louis in this video, and the Pruitt Igoe building and its destruction exemplify that similar history.

@carlosrivas1629 Жыл бұрын

st louis and Detroit both run by Democratic party, the party of KKK and segregation.

@timfronimos459 Жыл бұрын

Read, "Slaughter of Cities," by E Michael Jones to understand how a city like Detroit was brought down. It wasn't merely race, white flight, and loss of the automotive industry but deeper policies that ruined this city. Read the book to see what federal policies undermined American middle class traditional families An american industry. The American Dream WAS real and lived my millions of Detroiters. At 1 time, Detroit was the wealthiest city in America. Detroit had the most privately owned homes. The most corporate headquarters.

@MylesZhang Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@Howard0Beale Жыл бұрын

excellent work, with a tinge of the ted kaczinski

@GT47179 Жыл бұрын

Cant believe you used this music 😃

@mrpotential11 2 жыл бұрын

Do more videos like this

@RayPointerChannel Ай бұрын

Being a Michigan native descendant, it needs to be made clearer that the majority of the White Pine was located in Central Michigan. Detroit was not, and is NOT the entire state. When Michigan became a state, it sold off the pine forests for much needed revenue for operations. The White Pine and well as Oak was sent down to Grand Rapids for processing into lumber that was sent out for construction during the western expansion. The rest was used in the manufacturing of furniture. After the land was scalped of the trees, it was transformed into agricultural use by settlers from Ohio and parts of Europe. Many of these Setters were Free Blacks and mixed race people. You may be interested in further details of this story that can be found in THE MECOSTA-MORTON VIDEO TOUR and A NATION WITHIN ITSELF, which is also on KZbin.

@badpiggies988 Жыл бұрын

Grandkids of those of us living there: “So that forest way outside of town used to be part of the city?” “Yes”

@cameronb3834 2 жыл бұрын

Hahahha instantly recognized as the GTA 4 Theme Song

@JamieSmith-fz2mz Жыл бұрын

Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass. From the film of the same name. One of the best soundtracks ever.

@seamusmaye1333 2 жыл бұрын

This is pure perfection of history!

@antonioguglielmetti2661 Жыл бұрын

Crazy how the city flipped from white, to black, to no one

@penderyn8794 Жыл бұрын

"British" Basically it was the English. The original meaning of British was a Welsh speaker

@KCCardCo 3 ай бұрын

In 1950 not adjusted for inflation Detroit industry brought in 10 billion dollars, 10 billion within the city limits. It's all fact and was in the January 1st edition of the Detroit Free Press.

@cheaserceaser Жыл бұрын

How come there's a correlation between black population percentage and population and urban decay?

@antonioguglielmetti2661 Жыл бұрын

They weren't allowed to be educated and were kept in their lower class sectors early on and when they finally fought back, it was too late. There were enough of them to pose a threat, so the whites moved away, and with them, a lot of organizations that made the city stay in tact. Blacks were forced into lower class work and had to learn everything once the whites ditched them. The city self imploded once it was deep into its black majority. Eventually, they started moving out to the suburbs to once again enter an orderly realm.

@lawrencedaniels555 Ай бұрын

That's a great question. The answer to that is not what you think.

@lawrencedaniels555 Ай бұрын

@@antonioguglielmetti2661You're not even close to answering the question

@lawrencedaniels555 Ай бұрын

Because all of the policies changed blacks didn't get the same opportunities when arriving in Detroit. They were met with racial tension and widespread police brutality. There was discrimination in jobs, housing and education. Many of the white working class were not highly educated but they still got the best opportunities. Then with the Nixon and Reagan administrative policies, they were he'll on urban America. I think you need to read some books that tell the truth about urban decline in America. You can't blame a group of people that had no money and no power.

@cheaserceaser Ай бұрын

@@lawrencedaniels555 Cuz of racism and police brutality?

@savilovmike1 4 ай бұрын

Fucked up this city

@mcsone_ Жыл бұрын

Can’t even have a map in Ohio. Things have gone terribly rong…

@tobygoodguy4032 2 жыл бұрын

I suspect that there's a intersectional woke subtext buried deep inside this, heheh but the fact is that deindustrialization emptied out Detroit of those people who could afford to leave and relocate. Those people have no regrets AND should have no burden placed on their conscience for doing so.

@rickybell2149 2 жыл бұрын

Redlining blocked blacks from being able to acquire generational wealth to make the proper investments and moves as deindustrialization occurred.

@tobygoodguy4032 2 жыл бұрын

@@rickybell2149 Why would anyone meaning even blacks want to buy into a city that was emptying its industry? Your point makes no sense ... but you needed to use a new word you think you learned - 'redlining'.

@rickybell2149 2 жыл бұрын

@@tobygoodguy4032 when industry fails or leaves new industry or business should pop up in its place if you have a truly free market but Detroit is plagued with crony capitalism and horrible policy makers.

@tobygoodguy4032 2 жыл бұрын

@@rickybell2149 You must be a newly-minted high school grad dropping the phrase of the daze: crony capitalism. Moral of story: Friends help other friends get and stay rich. (Getting tired of pulling that espresso lever, as of yet?)

@rickybell2149 2 жыл бұрын

@@tobygoodguy4032 bro what is wrong with you lmao I’m all for free markets and getting rich and keeping as much of your hard earned labor and income as possible totally against big government and handouts but I’m also against shady politics and coporate america using government and our tax dollars to stay rich and in power…if you agree with lobbyists and all the shady people running our government on both sides then that’s you eventually the bs expires and ima leave it at that.

@davidnezamis2901 Жыл бұрын

Too many blue color high paying union jobs left the city! When the jobs relocate so do the people! Very sad!

@RayPointerChannel Ай бұрын

As I explained to some well-meaning youngsters in Royal Oak who were publishing the DETROITER magazine in the 1980s. Articles about where to go downtown and spend money was not the solution to Detroit's problem. It was the loss of its Tax Base. And when industry shuts down or leaves, and the workers leave--workers who pay city taxes, the city suffers. It doesn't take any Economy PhD person to figure that out. It's a reality based on common sense not economic 'theory."

@user-vf3gf4xq3v Жыл бұрын

This experience is not unique to Detroit. Any place where large scale manufacturing has left leaves behind masses ill equipped to reinvent themselves and or relocate to places where their labor aligns with demand. We make it worse by offering benefits without requirements for movement towards individual self sustainment.

@56packmanable Жыл бұрын

So.......Thanks, we've milked all the money we can out of this area, good luck, don't come looking for a handout?

@lorenarios9461 8 ай бұрын

They use the music to inject drama - unnecessary

@RayPointerChannel Ай бұрын

A lot of people making amateur video have no realization of the use of music. As a result there can be music that is distracting or works against the tone of the video and creates a negative impression.