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Detroit

BBC2 has just broadcast Julien Temple’s amazing film ‘Requiem for Detroit?’ Described as ‘a moving elegy for the death of the city’ you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Detroit was finished for good. Note the question mark in the title though. By going through the city’s history in such detail, the film actually reminds us that Detroit’s past is full of ups and downs, it was ever thus. This is a city of resilient, imaginative and resourceful people. Hence despite its current problems – lack of city government finance and action, dangerous abandoned buildings, ghost-neighbourhoods and, particularly appalling, the closure of 29 schools last year – the hurdles are being overcome. Read more…