Memo from Motown: is austerity here to stay?

Reese, Laura A.; Sands, Gary; Skidmore, Mark

doi:10.1093/cjres/rst037

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“…While research modeling the US dog population assumed that the number of feral or unowned dogs was "negligible" [26], estimates of stray and feral dogs in Detroit ranged from 3000 to 50,000 [27]. Detroit also experienced extreme fiscal distress, which challenged its ability to provide animal welfare/control services [28,29]. The roaming animal problem, in particular, was exacerbated by foreclosures, vacancies, and structural abandonment which left habitats for stray and feral animals to shelter in and for illegal activities, such as dog fighting, to be conducted [30].…”

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Preventing Dog Bites: It Is Not Only about the Dog

Reese

Vertalka

2020

Animals

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Background: Dog bites can have an array of negative health impacts on victims. Research focusing on the correlates of bites focused on limited sets of variables and produced conflicting findings. Objective: To expand knowledge about the correlates of dog bites by exploring a comprehensive set of variables related to the nature of the dog and the circumstances surrounding the bite not commonly explored in extant research. Methods: Data were drawn from police department reports of dog bites in the city of Detroit between 2007–2015; 478 dog bites were reported. Multiple regression was used to determine the significant correlates of dog bites, focusing on the nature of the dog and the circumstances surrounding the bite. Results: Bites were caused by a neighborhood dog. Thirty-two percent of the reports involved dogs running loose; 25% dogs that had escaped from a fenced or unfenced yard; 9% escaped from their home; and 8% had broken off a chain, were being walked, or were in their own home. Based on multiple regression, the victim was most likely bitten in their own yard by a single neighborhood dog that escaped from its home or yard. Breed of dog was not correlated with bites in multiple regression. Conclusions: The greatest risk of bites does not come from wandering feral dogs. Based on multiple regression, the victim was most likely bitten in their own yard by a single neighborhood dog that escaped from its home or yard. Human error often contributes to bites.

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Section: The Casementioning

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Preventing Dog Bites: It Is Not Only about the Dog

Reese

Vertalka

2020

Animals

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“…A host of factors, both internal and external, have been blamed for Detroit's decline [12,13]. Internal forces (potentially under local control) include: governmental corruption, lack of action to effectively address declining resources; inability to collect taxes; and racial strife [14].…”

Section: The Reality Of Decline: 1950-2010mentioning

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“…Detroit has consistently been among the top ten US cities with the highest dissimilarity indexes over the past 30 years. The resulting relationship between black Detroit and its mostly white suburbs has been likened to apartheid South Africa [13]. …”

Section: The Reality Of Decline: 1950-2010mentioning

confidence: 99%

Great expectations: two tales of a city

Vojnovic¹,

Reese²,

Eckert³

et al. 2016

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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After a decade long demographic and economic decline, culminating in America's largest municipal bankruptcy, many observers were ready to proclaim that Detroit was dead. Nevertheless, following the resolution of the bankruptcy and new municipal leadership, there has been a dramatic shift among academics and the popular press to documenting Detroit's recovery and resilience. Indeed, the rapid and dramatic turnaround in the city's fortunes appears to tell the stories of two different cities.People and jobs are again returning to Detroit, along with levels of investment not seen for decades. These developments are, however, highly concentrated in Downtown and Midtown. The reality is that a strengthening core area is enjoying some measure of prosperity while the balance of the city continues to bleed population, jobs, and economic activity. The positive changes have done little to address the problems of a population that is poorly educated, lacks job skills and work experience, not to mention the problems of a deteriorating built environment and aged infrastructure.

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“…It is possible that over time Detroit, or at least its core and some select areas, will revitalize, as has happened in other deindustrialized cities. Admittedly, such a possibility is denied in most of this literature where there is broad agreement that what sets Detroit apart “is an inability to recover” (Reese, Sands, & Skidmore, , p. 113). But should it be set apart so easily at a time that news reports speak of a wave of municipal bankruptcies “moving across the country” (PBS News Hour, ) and property taxes, the major source of local revenues, are limited in many jurisdictions by continuing problems for so many mortgage holders?…”

Section: Tales Of a Death Foretoldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When it comes to urban problems, “Detroit is consistently close to the bottom of the league tables” (Reese, Sands, & Skidmore, , p. 113). Two decades ago Ze'ev Chafets (, p. 119), a self‐described native son of “Murder Capital U.S.A,” called Detroit “America's first Third World city.” That year the 1990 Census, comparing the 77 U.S. cities with over 200,000 residents, ranked Detroit first in poverty, or looked at from the bottom of the rankings, it was the bottom.…”

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If Detroit Is Dead, Some Things Need to Be Said at the Funeral

Tabb

2015

Journal of Urban Affairs

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A growing literature has long proclaimed the city of Detroit to be “dead.” Of course cities, unlike sentient beings, do not actually die even if they dramatically lose industry and population and the local government its ability to meet basic needs. How their continuing crisis is addressed depends on how competing interests are able to tell their story. This essay evaluates the most significant of these competing and complementary stories and evaluates state‐appointed Emergency Financial Manager Kevyn Orr's plan of adjustment that would cut the pensions of city workers and reduce payments to some bondholders by large amounts. What would happen will be settled in the years to come as court challenges are addressed. This essay evaluates explanations and who and what is to blame. It provides an alternative focus to the “Detroit is dead” literature and raises concerns absent from the dominant narratives of what is justified in a just settlement.

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Memo from Motown: is austerity here to stay?

Cited by 30 publications

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Preventing Dog Bites: It Is Not Only about the Dog

Preventing Dog Bites: It Is Not Only about the Dog

Great expectations: two tales of a city

If Detroit Is Dead, Some Things Need to Be Said at the Funeral

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