When Did Deindustrialization Start? Reexamining Industrial Decline in Metro Detroit - Andrew Guinn, Patrick Cooper-McCann, 2025 This paper argues that the starting date of deindustrialization in the United States Rust Belt hinges on the scale at which it is studied. The term deindustrial...

Our paper on deindustrialization and Detroit was published last year in the Journal of Urban History

Patrick and Andrew's Brown Bag Talk YouTube video by WSU Humanities Center

My coauthor Patrick Cooper-McCann and I spoke to the WSU Humanities Center about the origins of Metro Detroit’s fragmented municipal landscape. Parallel to our work on Detroit’s deindustrialization, we trace the city’s contemporary challenges to how its pre-WWII industrial boom was institutionalized

Can Industrial Reinvestment Reverse Neighborhood Decline? Evidence from Automotive Investment in Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, 1980s-2020s - Andrew Guinn, Patrick Cooper-McCann, 2025 Under what conditions does industrial reinvestment contribute to the revitalization of distressed central-city neighborhoods? This paper compares the redevelopm...

Can Industrial Reinvestment Reverse Neighborhood Decline? @arguinn.bsky.social‬ & ‪@coopermccann.bsky.social‬ explore Evidence from Automotive Investment in Detroit, MI & Windsor, ON, 1980s-2020s. @edqjournal.bsky.social @sagepub.com Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📝 From the Blog: Patrick Cooper-McCann and @arguinn.bsky.social share their research comparing deindustrialization in Detroit and Windsor

deindustrialization.org/detroit-wind...

When Did Deindustrialization Start? Reexamining Industrial Decline in Metro Detroit - Andrew Guinn, Patrick Cooper-McCann, 2025 This paper argues that the starting date of deindustrialization in the United States Rust Belt hinges on the scale at which it is studied. The term deindustrial...

When did the US Rust Belt start to rust? Cooper McCann and I carefully reconstruct the geography of Metro Detroit’s industrial history, showing that the city’s oldest factory districts were declining by the 1920s—even as the auto industry was booming on the urban periphery.

doi.org/10.1177/0096...