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Urban Redevelopment and Rehabilitation for Detroit
Author(s)
Kasim A. Korkmaz
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2018.07.004
Affiliation(s)
School of Visual and Built Environment, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA
ABSTRACT
Detroit has been one of the leading cities in the 20th century in the US. Manufacturing, especially, automobile industry created and continued the thriving economy in Detroit, MI in the early to mid-1900s. When outsourcing impacted the industry, people began to leave the city. That turned into a demographic catastrophe in Detroit. Economy had continuously fallen and many of the properties were foreclosed. After the housing market crash in 2008, a big economic crisis effected all country. After such a strong economic crisis, Detroit has been desperately in need of economic revival which has begun to turn around very slowly in last 10 years. In this paper, Detroit has been investigated through the experienced constructional problems. Sustainable solutions for Detroit are discussed in a broader aspect. The main purpose of the research is to understand the current problems in construction in Detroit after a decade of the economic crisis and bring sustainable solutions for urban redevelopment and rehabilitation for Detroit. Paper also details the problems in Detroit area, reasons behind the complications, components/parameters, constraints/limitations, solutions, people involved and expected results.
KEYWORDS
Detroit, economic crisis, urban redevelopment, urban rehabilitation.
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