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I couldn't figure out why it would be in such bad shape, with books everywhere like that, and then get razed. Then I saw Detroit. The big auto companies really fucked that city good, they should be paying to fix what they broke.
Clearly you skipped over the Coleman Young Era of leadership in Detroit. Plagued by crime and rampant corruption, White flight started after a series of race riots in 1967, but continued through the 70s and 80s. Young succeeded in integrating the police department and reducing brutality complaints, but the murder rate never dipped below 50 per 100k residents and the city lost about half a million residents during his ~20 years of leadership.
Then of course you had later convicted crooks like Kwambe Kilpatrick run the city into bankruptcy. Auto companies, mainly GM and Chrysler, left, but that was only part of the problem. Years of fiscal mismanagement and crime deteriorated the city.
I didn't mean to imply it was the only problem, but I'd argue it was the biggest which the others stemmed from. Detroit grew around them but as you pointed out it wasn't only when they left that problems happened.
The city is rebuilding albiet slowly. Some parts of detroit are either full of abandoned buildings next to occupied buildings or just an empty plot of land that is cheaper to purchase. Than with a home in need of repairs.