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Detroit is 22nd most populous city in the US and the largest city in the state of Michigan. It has been struggling with economic challenges since 1960s
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Detroit is famous as the Motor City because of it being the cradle of assembly line production for automobiles. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler started here
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Ford River Rouge complex was the largest factory in the world by the time of its completion in 1928. The giant two red factories produce steel. The automobile production takes place in the buildings in the background
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Industrial suburbs of Detroit are what used to power this city. Today, business has changed, resulting in less jobs required inside Detroit. In particular, the car manufacturing has been diversified by moving production to other facilities
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Industrial suburbs of Detroit are what used to power this city. Today, the production models have chaged, resulting in less jobs required inside Detroit. In particular, the car manufacturing has been diversified by shifting production to other facilities
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Industrial suburbs around Detroit
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Sunrise over Dearborne, a well-off suburb of Detroit. Where there are jobs, the neighborhoods around Detroit look safe and clean, just like anywhere else in the US
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Father and son business occupies the last remaining building on the block
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Entertainment venues have closed as people moved out of the city
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Detroit's nick name - Motor City - holds still, as three largest US car manufacturing facilities are located here, and the global HQ of General Motors.
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Inside the General Motors Headquarters
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Labor Movement Monument commemorates the role of trade unions in Detroit's history. As the birth cradle of modern conveyor belt production system, Detroit has shaped and been shaped by the relations between the industrialists and the trade unions
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Detroit has gone many ways to improve the local economy. Among other attempts, the city invested into the elevated monorail. It is not widely used due to missing links to suburbs where the majority of people live
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The border crossing to Canada is the busiest in the northern US and accounts for 25% of trade volume between these two countries
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Detroit is infamous for housing decay. There are currently more houses for sale than buyers on the market. A house that used to stand here, before it collapsed, cost just a few thousand dollars.
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Abandoned homes make neighborhoods around them insecure. No-one's wooden houses often shelter drug addicts or fall victim to fire. An alternative to demolishing empty houses is to convert them to art objects, like this house here.
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Shopping mall, Detroit
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Average family income in Detroit is lower than in many countries around the world. Some survive by growing their own vegetables
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A typical street in Detroit. Empty spaces are where houses were demolished
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Detroit claims to be the most bike-friendly city in the US. The wide roads are not so crowded since the population density fell by 2/3 of its high number in the 1950s
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An abandoned house is an often scene in Detroit. However, not so much after the municipal government launched compaign to demolish empty houses back in 2013
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Some neighborhoods are doing better, but some are seriously in decay. The infamous abandoned Detroit railway station can be seen in the background
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Beaux-Arts architecture slowly comes into decay
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Though abandoned, all property in Detroit is in private hands. Some landlords hope to sell it one day for proper money, should Detroit rise
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A typical neighborhood scene in Detroit
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This cafe has been abandoned. Some time soon it might get burnt down or demolished by municipality to secure the neighborhood from drugs and crime
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A simple neighborhood in Detroit suburbs
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Abandoned church was converted to a dentist's office
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The only city in the US, where you see fences around gardens. Though the crime rate has improved in the last decade, Detroit is still the most dangerous big city in the States
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Abandoned house has lost its roof!
