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Name: Brian Wang Chongyu
School: School of Engineering(aerospace), University of Michigan, USA.
Age: 22
Little more: A man with great inertia to emotions and work, someone who tries his best according to his perspective, but realise that it is impossible to live up to people's standards. I want to love and be loved, want to be sensitive and have people care about my feelings, want to care for and be cared for.
Welcome again, to my world where i can let loose all i want to say without being corrected. Hah..or so i think. Anyway, here is where i will try to relate stuff i learn and experience, so if you feel like you're a better person for reading my mistakes and my lamentations, good for you. Or else just enjoy the ride.
bloggie
Monday, March 5, 2007
Detroit Stories (I)
Well, i suppose i can talk about Detroit here too. Kinda paints the background to Detroit and let people get to know the city better. It all started with the auto industry boom. It created the city of Detroit, became the driving force behind the economy of the city, creating jobs, attracting talents and people. And later, the Ambassador Bridge was built by a multi billionaire who owns a trucking company, to ensure a route for his trucks to travel by and do their work. Then later the auto industry started to relocate. The main thrust force of the economy was taken away and slowly it started to dwindle. No longer able to maintain the interest of investment groups and elites, people started to filter out of the city. Along with terrible estate agents who predicted that drop of property prices of the residential areas, there was a phenomenon whereby once a Afro-american moved into a district, the white community left the area because of the prediction based on the new neighbour. Whole communities became Afro-american populated, and the white community moved to the suburbs of the city. Legislations were later passed that inner city populations would be subjected to higher taxes. [Note: inner city was populated mostly by Afro Americans] People suddenly realised that they were no longer able to keep up with house rents, and they had no resources to move to other places. The same rich man who owns the Ambassador Bridge also owns the land around the bridge, for the sole purpose of deterring others from taking his monopoly of the bridge away. So the buildings that stood over those lands become an eye sore, and the city has no way of dealing with that. The combination of these resulted in people being evicted out of their homes, unable to stay in their neighbourhood, they moved to the abandoned buildings, or wherever they could find a roof and shelter.
the lonelyTREE
11:55 AM
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