CityLab Daily: Can Poletown Come Back After GM?

Motor City shuffle: Last month, General Motors announced plans to shut down its Detroit-Hamtramck plant, one of only two remaining auto plants in the Motor City, named for its location straddling the border of the two cities. Much to GM’s annoyance, almost everyone else has always called the plant “GM Poletown,” after the Detroit neighborhood that was bulldozed using eminent domain to build the facility. A new documentary, Poletown Lives!, captures the resistance mounted in 1981 to stop the razing of homes, businesses, and churches.