How Detroit Went From a Booming Metropolis to a Shrinking City

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Part 1 of a NBC Nightly News series below:

And probably the most accurate summarization of the city's state:

"Part 1 of Reviving Detroit looks at how the city went from the richest in the U.S. to the most poverty stricken. Detroit’s population is at nearly a quarter of what it was at its peak, and despite a recent wave of gentrification, the city is still struggling with rampant crime, a failing school system and swaths of vacant land."