Document Type
Honors Project - Open Access
Abstract
Cities in the American Rustbelt face the considerable challenges of depopulation and economic decline, but they are also increasingly viewed as places ripe with opportunities for innovation and an exciting re-imagination of urban space. This paper examines the Detroit Works Project, a re-envisioning and revitalization initiative in Detroit, to explore larger questions of accessibility and inclusion in U.S. post-industrial cities. It is an investigation of how to structure these revitalization efforts within cities where networks of actors, who invested in urban industrial growth, created policies which built the geographies of unequal access, racial segregation, and systemic marginalization that persist today.
Recommended Citation
Palchick, Andrienne, "Challenging Rust: Race and Rightsizing in Detroit, an American Post-Industrial Context" (2012). Geography Honors Projects. 33.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/geography_honors/33
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