My coauthor Patrick Cooper-McCann and I spoke to the WSU Humanities Center about the origins of Metro Detroit’s fragmented municipal landscape. Parallel to our work on Detroit’s deindustrialization, we trace the city’s contemporary challenges to how its pre-WWII industrial boom was institutionalized

Can Industrial Reinvestment Reverse Neighborhood Decline? @arguinn.bsky.social‬ & ‪@coopermccann.bsky.social‬ explore Evidence from Automotive Investment in Detroit, MI & Windsor, ON, 1980s-2020s. @edqjournal.bsky.social @sagepub.com Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📝 From the Blog: Patrick Cooper-McCann and @arguinn.bsky.social share their research comparing deindustrialization in Detroit and Windsor deindustrialization.org/detroit-wind...

When did the US Rust Belt start to rust? Cooper McCann and I carefully reconstruct the geography of Metro Detroit’s industrial history, showing that the city’s oldest factory districts were declining by the 1920s—even as the auto industry was booming on the urban periphery. doi.org/10.1177/0096...