The distinctions between the city of Detroit and the metropolitan area of Detroit have existed since the early historical documentation of the region. Consider Delray. Delray, a neighborhood approximately two miles south of the city center has long been a major industrial center for the city. Home to salt mines, steel plants, and later a massive waste water treatment facility, Delray has borne the...
The immigrants' expectations as they arrived in Chicago in 1905 were very high. They imagined a place where cultures thrived and everyone had a chance to experience the very best of lifestyles. As the train bounded down the tracks they started to notice major changes in the environment the closer they got to their destination. As they pulled into the station they were taken back by the landscape they...
The opening and subsequent expansion of the Henry Ford Factory in 1903, among many other factors, led to the population of the city of Detroit skyrocketing to one million residents between the years of 1910 and 1920. The rapid expansion of urban populations led to concerns that the remaining farmers would not be able to grow enough to feed them all. Some urban intellectuals suggested that people should...
Bob MacHardy was a teacher at Winter Park High School from 1962 until his unexpected death in 1985. During that time, he and his wife and sons lived at 233 Pinewood Drive in southern Maitland. His journey to his job roughly six miles away was typical for a middle class educator in central Florida. A winding labyrinth of suburbs encircled both his house and the High School at which he worked, and only...
He called it a "rape of history." Birmingham News art critic James Nelson made this charge as part of his plea to the citizens of Birmingham to save the historic Fox building. The Fox once housed one of the city’s many theatres; however, that was not the reason Nelson wanted to save it. The building was an architectural marvel and a structure he believed was Birmingham’s equivalent to Chicago’s...
As eighty-one-year old Mr. Paul reflects back on the seventy-four years he lived in Bronx, New York, he paints an image of the city he remembers as far different from the one in which he now lives after the surge of industrialism. An avid gardener, Mr. Paul describes the old Bronx in terms of rose gardens, flowers, and cherry trees in stark contrast to the “bleak and stony” “shadows” that...