Andrew Guinn
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urban planning | economic development | international planning | Detroit | Brasil Assistant Prof @ Wayne State University
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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.

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When Did Deindustrialization Start? Reexamining Industrial Decline in Metro Detroit - Andrew Guinn, Patrick Cooper-McCann, 2025
This paper argues that the starting date of deindustrialization in the United States Rust Belt hinges on the scale at which it is studied. The term deindustrial...
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