What Cities have lost 1 million residents?

[ja!mz]

Lets just sell Detroit to the Chinese..

[Hermod]

Lets just sell Detroit to the Chinese..

I wonder if they have change for a dollar.

[Magnatomicflux]

Lets just sell Detroit to the Chinese..

I think Detroit is already being used as collateral for some loans or something

[canuck]

As I read the posts about population loss, I have to ask a cynical question: what the fuck is the purpose of this thread?

To rationalize Detroit's population loss as an historical event is nonsense. Detroit's population loss is the result of two things: racism and removal of revenue. Racism because Whites didn't want to live with a increasing Black population and when White flight took to the suburbs, they move their businesses to their communities leaving rotting shells behind thus removing the revenue, the money. Not to disappoint, Blacks in turn decided to follow their White brothers and sisters to the very suburbs that Whites fled to more than 50 years ago. Detroit's fate is a result of politics and economics, nothing more, nothing less.

Very well put. At the end of the day, decade, century though; you have to look at Detroit's depopulation as a regional problem. It's pick and choose the kind of pastry you want; vanilla donut with chocolate bits on top or chocolate donut with white bits, or a glorious mille-feuille that melds all the flavors harmoniously. The future of Detroit and the region are tied, and if anything positive happens politically to turn things around in a big way; it will have taken all players to do the deed.

Hermod / Just blue sky brainstorming here:

Maybe Detroit just has the "bones" of a 300,000 population city and all that growth from 300,000 to 1,800,000 was just "boomtown" growth. As a result, the "bones" of the city were not enough to counteract the various phenomena causing the exit from the city of anyone who could afford the move.

In other words, there was just not enough "there" in downtown Detroit to serve as an anchor holding people to the city.

Alternate reality? Denial? Come on.

woodwardboy The same level of southern blacks that poured into Detroit, also poured into Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, St. Louis, but Detroit got stuck with a black population of 85% today.. why?

Learn to savor the different ingredients that make up your city, think of recipes to include all of them and mix well. Enjoy.

[mpf]

But as far as diminsihing cities.... Venice probably leads the world, percentage wise... From a high approaching 180,000 in the early 1950s... the population of Venice has dropped to below 60,000.... a drop of 2/3 of its' population in 60 years. Not even Detroit has that high of a percentage decline....

Gistok, a guy staying on topic!
I think i know why they had this happen, it is the result of tourism driving up the cost-of-living, The city is very expensive to live in, a home/apt. costs a fortune.
Which, of course, contrasts with Detroit...