Detroit and the Ruhr: Two Post-industrial Landscapes
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Julia Sattler
Abstract
Using the examples of Detroit and Germany’s Ruhr Region, the photo essay addresses the challenges former industrial centers across the United States and Europe are confronted with at the end of production: shrinking populations, the loss of jobs and the decay of industrial sites. One popular narrative about de-industrialization in both Detroit and the Ruhr is the idea of a “rebirth through culture” following the discovery by the so-called creative class. While the media discourse is more or less similar, dealing with processes of structural change always still needs to be locally specific–there is as of yet no standard recipe for reviving these cities, and changing their image in the face of increasingly “global” demands remains difficult.
©2013 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin / Boston
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- Masthead
- Masthead
- Articles
- Families’ Emotion Work in Transnational Settings: The Case of Military Families
- Globalization and Sustainable Development: False Twins?
- Globalization and the Environment in the Emerging Economies: Increased Imbalance, New Momentum, or Stalemate?
- Reportage
- Detroit and the Ruhr: Two Post-industrial Landscapes
- Book Reviews
- World History: An Introduction, by Eric Vanhaute. Translated by Linda Weix. London: Routledge, 2013, 182pp. ISBN: 9780415535793
- The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History, edited by A. Ricardo López and Barbara Weinstein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012, 464pp. ISBN: 9780822351177
- The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences, Cannadine, David. New York: Knopf, 2013, 352pp. ISBN 9780307269072
