A Hundred Years of Detroit: Then and Now | The New Yorker
A split-screen tour highlights the iconic landmarks and auto-manufacturing industry of the Motor City, once the fourth largest city in America with its wealth of stable jobs on the Ford, Chrysler, and G.M. assembly lines.
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Strengthening the basic unity of this community is still a work in progress... 50 years later. But there's important work being done in our city.
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Life in Osborn is the story of hope for one of Detroit?s most-blighted neighborhoods. Chronicling the efforts of the Detroit-based non-profit Life Remodeled to make a sustainable difference in the northeast Detroit community that once was the most violent ZIP Code in the United States
In the once-thriving city of Detroit, we start to dig underneath the decay of the automobile industry and discover a well rich in art and culture cultivating underneath. Just as the wheel is the symbol of Detroit's past the cyclic shape of it reminds us that life repeats itself and has potential for rebirth.
