Detroit symbolized US industrial power for much of the 20th Century. Cars, cars, cars. Something went terribly wrong with this powerhouse city. The automobile industry imploded by building crappy cars and SUV. Crack supplanted the production line as the leading employer of black youth. Billions were wasted on revival efforts dominated by skyscrapers and sports stadium. People fled the inner city. The exodus sucked Detroit dry of humanity. The city only contains a fraction of its 1950 population peak.
Some officials say 900,000. Others think about 600,000.
In 2010 Julien Temple released REQUIEM FOR DETROIT. This BBC documentary covers the collapse of America's 4th largest city from its height to the present return to the prairie.
Cities rise. Cities fall.
REQUIEM FOR DETROIT forecasts a new sense of city.
Planned abandonment instead of urban renewal.
If there are no jobs, then what's the use?
Let Detroit go back to the plains.
Where the buffalo roam.
See REQUIEM FOR DETROIT by going to the following URL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OpXhd7iau8
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