The Development of Detroit's Cass Corridor, 1850-1975
Author : David W. Hartman
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Cass Corridor (Detroit, Mich.)
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Author : David W. Hartman
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Cass Corridor (Detroit, Mich.)
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Author : Conrad Kickert
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262351226
Tracing two centuries of rise, fall, and rebirth in the heart of downtown Detroit. Downtown Detroit is in the midst of an astonishing rebirth. Its sidewalks have become a dreamland for an aspiring creative class, filled with shoppers, office workers, and restaurant-goers. Cranes dot the skyline, replacing the wrecking balls seen there only a few years ago. But venture a few blocks in any direction and this liveliness gives way to urban blight, a nightmare cityscape of crumbling concrete, barbed wire, and debris. In Dream City, urban designer Conrad Kickert examines the paradoxes of Detroit's landscape of extremes, arguing that the current reinvention of downtown is the expression of two centuries of Detroiters' conflicting hopes and dreams. Kickert demonstrates the materialization of these dreams with a series of detailed original morphological maps that trace downtown's rise, fall, and rebirth. Kickert writes that downtown Detroit has always been different from other neighborhoods; it grew faster than other parts of the city, and it declined differently, forced to reinvent itself again and again. Downtown has been in constant battle with its own offspring—the automobile and the suburbs the automobile enabled—and modernized itself though parking attrition and land consolidation. Dream City is populated by a varied cast of downtown power players, from a 1920s parking lot baron to the pizza tycoon family and mortgage billionaire who control downtown's fate today. Even the most renowned planners and designers have consistently yielded to those with power, land, and finances to shape downtown. Kickert thus finds rhyme and rhythm in downtown's contemporary cacophony. Kickert argues that Detroit's case is extreme but not unique; many other American cities have seen a similar decline—and many others may see a similar revitalization.
Author : June Manning Thomas
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814339085
In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city and the nation. Yet despite their efforts, Detroit was rapidly transforming into a notorious symbol of urban decay. In Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit, June Manning Thomas takes a look at what went wrong, demonstrating how and why government programs were ineffective and even destructive to community needs. In confronting issues like housing shortages, blight in older areas, and changing economic conditions, Detroit's city planners worked during the urban renewal era without much consideration for low-income and African American residents, and their efforts to stabilize racially mixed neighborhoods faltered as well. Steady declines in industrial prowess and the constant decentralization of white residents counteracted planners' efforts to rebuild the city. Among the issues Thomas discusses in this volume are the harmful impacts of Detroit's highways, the mixed record of urban renewal projects like Lafayette Park, the effects of the 1967 riots on Detroit's ability to plan, the city-building strategies of Coleman Young (the city's first black mayor) and his mayoral successors, and the evolution of Detroit's federally designated Empowerment Zone. Examining the city she knew first as an undergraduate student at Michigan State University and later as a scholar and planner, Thomas ultimately argues for a different approach to traditional planning that places social justice, equity, and community ahead of purely physical and economic objectives. Redevelopment and Race was originally published in 1997 and was given the Paul Davidoff Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in 1999. Students and teachers of urban planning will be grateful for this re-release. A new postscript offers insights into changes since 1997.
Author : Armando Delicato
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2012-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531654887
Welcome to the Cass Corridor, an area geographically bound by freeways and major thoroughfares, yet boundless in its rich history and influence. Since the French established the sleepy ribbon farms in the 1700s, the Cass Corridor has experienced a fascinating evolution. Home to affluent gentry in the Victorian era, the area became the hub for automotive parts suppliers, film distribution, and pharmaceuticals at the turn of the 20th century. The interwar period saw the area transition to a working-class neighborhood that descended into a slum. The Cass Corridor, however, redefined itself, Detroit, and the nation as a home to the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The corridor has long been a cradle of creativity that many renowned personalities called home, including Charles Lindbergh, Gilda Radner, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Marcus Belgrave, and others.
Author : Clarence Monroe Burton
Publisher : Detroit : [s.n.]
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
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Some of the most interesting and important financial events that transpire in the city prior to 1850.
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
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Author : Ronald S. Knapp
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
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Page : 274 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Michigan
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Author : Kenneth L. Kusmer
Publisher : Articles-Garlan
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
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Author : Herbert Pennell Norman
Publisher :
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Crime
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