The end of Detroit

Detroit may be the first metropolitan area in the world with thriving suburbs surrounding a dead city.

In the 1920s a New York weekly magazine Outlook actually called Detroit "the most modern city in the world, the city of tomorrow." Now it would be best described as "the most dead city in the world, the city of yesterday."

Perhaps the true irony of the death of Detroit is that it's downfall is rooted in the fact that everyone who had any money moved outside city limits into the suburbs. The suburbs would not exist without cars. The people who made money making cars got into their cars and drove away.