Detroit

Basic Information

Detroit is a city in Michigan, United States. It used to be a major site for factories for the American car industry, but the decline of this industry has caused the city to decline, dropping its population by half since 1950. Large parts of the city have become urban prairie.

See Also

• Devil's Night - an event in Detroit that takes place on October 30 - the night before Halloween
• Wheeled Shield - one of the stranger inventions to come out of the city

• News: Detroit - Too broke to bury their dead
• News: School's Out Forever
• News: US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive

Sources

Bibliography

1. Assignment Detroit Project - collections of Time Magazine articles on the city.

2. Detroit: The Death — and Possible Life — of a Great American City

3. Detroit: The Last Days @ The Guardian

4. Mythic Detroit - "The goal is to document the odd, the whimsical, the "What the Hell?" factor of Detroit."

5. Sweet Juniper! Blog with plenty of posts and images about life in Detroit

6. The Detroit Blog

7. Wikipedia entry

Game and Story Use

• Detroit is a good place to experience Post Apocalyptic Decay without actually having The End Of The World As We Know It/an After The End campaign.
• The general decay of the city make it a great place for Cyberpunk campaigns.
  • Perhaps the city center could be turned into a giant prison to deal with the ever-increasing American prison population.