But a 1974 case from the Detroit metro area "slammed the door shut, " Douglas said, on attempts to desegregate Northern urban areas.
For example, between 1900 and 1920, the growth of the auto industry helped the population of the Detroit metro area nearly triple, from 540, 000 people to 1.4 million people.
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Violent crime in the Detroit metro division was down 5% in 2011, but it remains the highest in the country with 1, 052 violent crimes per 100, 000 people, according to the FBI.
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In my metro Detroit practice alone, I've been horrified by dozens of botched jobs.
The metro Detroit area has a history and culture that is different from everywhere else in the world.
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The residents of the home include many of metro Detroit's aging Holocaust survivors.
In my metro Detroit plastic surgery practice, I estimate that 20% of my new female patients have recently undergone a divorce.
And Cadillac injected its athletic car lineage into the fold by sponsoring the V-Series Challenge presented by Metro Detroit Cadillac Dealers.
Calls to GameStop outlets in the Metro Detroit area found that many are not currently planning to hold a midnight launch.
As ReapSo grew, they started to expand to other cities in the metro Detroit area and plan to expand to Grand Rapids, as well.
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Marchionne has even planned to purchase a home in metro Detroit.
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Gilbert was born and raised in metro Detroit his father and grandfather were born in the city, and owned a bar there so he feels a personal stake in helping the city recover.
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Artists have been transforming vacant sites into art installations in metro areas from coast to coast from Boston to Detroit to San Francisco.
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Kim Hurst with the Wayne County Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners Program, known as SAFE, told local authorities that her Detroit branch has seen 60 girls in April alone and that her metro numbers are in the hundreds.
From 2000-09, the metropolitan areas that suffered the biggest net domestic migration losses resemble something of an urbanist dream team: New York, which saw a net outflow of a whopping 1.9 million citizens, followed by the Los Angeles metro area (-1, 337, 522), Chicago, Detroit, and, despite recent improvements, San Francisco-Oakland.
The 2010-11 numbers show the deck chairs on the migratory titanic have stayed remarkably similar, with New York still ranking first among the 51 biggest metro areas for net migration losses, followed by Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit and Philadelphia.
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