THE RURALIZATION OF DETROIT? IMPLICATIONS FOR ECONOMIC REDEVELOPMENT POLICY

Tanner Connors (), Laura A. Reese () and Mark Skidmore
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Tanner Connors: Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States
Laura A. Reese: Urban and Regional Planning and Global Urban Studies, Michigan State University, 208A Human Ecology, 552 W. Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States

Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, 2020, vol. 15, issue 3, 29-48

Abstract: This paper raises two questions: 1) do post-industrial cities such as Detroit have substantial numbers of areas with what are commonly defined as rural characteristics, and 2) if the answer to the first question is shown to be in the affirmative, then are economic development policies designed for urban areas likely to be successful? Using the United States Census Bureau’s 2010 decennial data and American Community Survey data from 2014 and 2016, Detroit is compared to other municipalities nationally to assess the extent to which it has rural characteristics and whether it has indeed ruralized over time. Based on findings that show increasing numbers of census tracts with rural characteristics, we argue that rural economic development policies may be a potentially more appropriate and effective alternative to traditional urban development strategies for post-industrial cities.

Keywords: local econoic development; post-industrial cities; shrinking cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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