Once one of America’s largest cities, Detroit was famously both a behemoth in automobile production and the birthplace of Motown. In recent years, however, it has been amid a financial and social decline—but it was not always this way. Today we will discover the rise and fall of Detroit.

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IT’S HISTORY Weekly tales of American Urban Decay as presented by your host Ryan Socash.

Chapters:
00:54 The early history of Detroit
04:27 Detroit's Industrial Boom
08:04 The Rise of Motown and Detroit's music scene
10:04 Detroit's beginning of the end
13:21 The corruption that finished the city off
14:57 A city on the rise once again

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Scriptwriter Imana Schoch
Editor Karolina Szwata,
Host Ryan Socash

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