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1. Detroit Urbanization

1.1. Mention historical events/processes here

2. it is a disaster when a city files for bankruptcy because gov't cannot pay upcoming bills: basic service like police, garbage man, & layoffs.

3. politics, economics, crime, and environment

4. Economic Changes

5. environment change

6. Demographic Change

7. Cultural change

8. Politics

9. gov't take control of mayor's responsibilities

10. 1864- first Bessemer type steel is produced, laying the groundwork for railroad, stove automobile manufacturing in Detroit.

11. Detroit becomes biggest manufacturer in 1900 of heating; shipbuilding, machine products, and rail cars expand

12. many European immigrants came in earlier centuries, treated better than blacks

13. many people of Detroit came because migration from south and east coast, carried tradition and attitudes of mistreatment toward blacks

14. Around WWII, unions and auto firms fought over split of company's revenues; workers & shareholders

15. followed by Treaty of Detroit, eastablishment of middle class

16. social and culture changes- equal treatmeant for blacks and whites in jobs since blacks pop. increased

17. choice of where rail lines and factories were determined social and economic status

18. Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac shaped economic and political decisions today.

19. 1970s German and Japanese producers sold high quality vehicles w/ competitive prices

20. Reason for threat of american cars and trucks was skyrocketing oil prices in 1973.

21. 1973, better job opportunities for highly trained, fewer ones for less skilled workers. affected blacks worse

22. turf wars

23. Technology

24. Local, historic factors

25. Henry Ford 1898

25.1. talk about Fordism as a process here.

26. technology changes from 1973 pressure economically

26.1. What changes? Talk about neoliberal globalization and de-industrialization here