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Title: Role of Climate Change in Detroit Sustainability

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: The city of Detroit (Michigan) has experienced social, economic, and climatic changes throughout the 20th century. Detroit was once an embodiment of exemplary industrialization and a utopia for automotive innovation. With the post-industrial stress and the abandonment that came with the fall of the automotive industry, however, the city saw drastic changes in structure and urban development. We use economic and social history records to assess the sustainability of Detroit during 1913 - 1976 time period by calculating its Sustainability Index (SI). We used climate data to correspond the decadal changes in SI with changes in precipitation and temperature in the Detroit area. A steady decrease in a citys winter temperatures may have a great impact on the population, especially the poor, and may contribute to a decrease in its sustainability.

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Authors: Larsen, Larissa; Andronova, Natalia; Parker, Jessica M.

Publisher: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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Topics: Health, Housing and Segregation, Other

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