{"id":17594,"date":"2022-06-23T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/?p=17594"},"modified":"2022-06-23T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:25:07","slug":"week-3-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2022\/06\/23\/week-3-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing that jumped out to me while I was reading <em>How to Kill a City <\/em>is how involved I am in the gentrification of Detroit. Despite growing up just 30 minutes from the city, I realized while reading the book that, for the most part, I&#8217;ve only visited the wealthier 7.2-mile area that the book discusses. Even when discussing Detroit with others, I would claim that the city has improved vastly from where it was a decade ago based solely on my experiences in this small, unrepresentative portion of Detroit. While I was always aware that there were parts of Detroit that haven&#8217;t been seeing this same economic development, I never put it at the forefront of my brain. Reading this book, however, forced to me recognize that the vast majority of Detroit is facing a socio-economic situation that I was completely ignorant of. I realized that I had been regurgitating many of the same talking points that the developers in the book used without taking the time to critically think about the real impacts of this gentrification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even now, living in Detroit, I actively reap the benefits of gentrification without a second thought. I live in a relatively nice Wayne State dorm in Midtown, one of the most gentrified areas in Detroit. I am surrounded by the Wayne State Police, who have been deputized by the county to further gentrification. I work down by the riverfront, where gentrification is at its peak. 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