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Joseph Coates and Emiliano Aguilar discuss the work done to preserve the memory of ACME workers in the Calumet region after the company’s coking plant closure.
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Amber Ward reviews Netflix’s Toxic Town, a depiction of women’s response to the continued exploitation of residents in a deindustrialized English town.
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Noah Schwartz discusses the whitewashing that occurs in many cases of historical preservation of gentrifying deindustrialized neighbourhoods, using the example of Marysville, New Brunswick
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Nearly 150 researchers and students are currently affiliated with the DePOT project. Historians and sociologists abound. Yet there are only a few scholars trained in planning or geography.
As urban planning scholars based in Detroit—specializing in community development and economic development respectively—we have affiliated with the DePOT project because studying deindustrialization challenges us to reconsider one of the foundational relationships structuring the built environment: the linkage between jobs and communities. Specifically, deindustrialization draws our attention to the decisive role that industry has long played in creating—and subsequently remaking—neighborhoods, cities, and metropolitan areas.
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Nearly 150 researchers and students are currently affiliated with the DePOT project. Historians and sociologists abound. Yet there are only a few scholars trained in planning or geography.
As urban planning scholars based in Detroit—specializing in community development and economic development respectively—we have affiliated with the DePOT project because studying deindustrialization challenges us to reconsider one of the foundational relationships structuring the built environment: the linkage between jobs and communities. Specifically, deindustrialization draws our attention to the decisive role that industry has long played in creating—and subsequently remaking—neighborhoods, cities, and metropolitan areas.
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“Boats Against the Current”: Industrial Memorials and The ‘Half-Life’ of Deindustrialisation in Port Glasgow, Scotland’
DéPOT 2026 Summer Institute Preliminary Program Now Available
Welcome to Our New DePOT Affiliates – January 2026
DéPOT 2026 Conference Preliminary Program Now Available
Whose Names Are Carved in Bronze? What a Coal Mining Memorial Reveals About Memory
Your Culture is not Good Enough – Confession of an arrogant urban planner
Aparna Das reflects on the complexity of Kolkata’s culture and built environment
A Curious Biography of Power Looms in the Aftermath of U.S. Deindustrialization
Yuan Yi uses the case of Orinoka Mills to explore the impacts of American textile closures
Deindustrialization and the Calumet Region
Joseph Coates and Emiliano Aguilar discuss the work done to preserve the memory of ACME workers in the Calumet region after the company’s coking plant closure.
Social Reproduction and Scandal in Netflix’s Toxic Town
Amber Ward reviews Netflix’s Toxic Town, a depiction of women’s response to the continued exploitation of residents in a deindustrialized English town.
Boss Narratives: Regeneration and Heritage in Marysville, New Brunswick, Canada.
Noah Schwartz discusses the whitewashing that occurs in many cases of historical preservation of gentrifying deindustrialized neighbourhoods, using the example of Marysville, New Brunswick
Proletarian (green) publics in transformation: Perspectives from the Ruhr (Part 2)
Nearly 150 researchers and students are currently affiliated with the DePOT project. Historians and sociologists abound. Yet there are only a few scholars trained in planning or geography.
As urban planning scholars based in Detroit—specializing in community development and economic development respectively—we have affiliated with the DePOT project because studying deindustrialization challenges us to reconsider one of the foundational relationships structuring the built environment: the linkage between jobs and communities. Specifically, deindustrialization draws our attention to the decisive role that industry has long played in creating—and subsequently remaking—neighborhoods, cities, and metropolitan areas.
Proletarian (green) publics in transformation: Perspectives from the Ruhr (Part 1)
Nearly 150 researchers and students are currently affiliated with the DePOT project. Historians and sociologists abound. Yet there are only a few scholars trained in planning or geography.
As urban planning scholars based in Detroit—specializing in community development and economic development respectively—we have affiliated with the DePOT project because studying deindustrialization challenges us to reconsider one of the foundational relationships structuring the built environment: the linkage between jobs and communities. Specifically, deindustrialization draws our attention to the decisive role that industry has long played in creating—and subsequently remaking—neighborhoods, cities, and metropolitan areas.