Events
Detroit: City of Ruins, or Renaissance?
2:30pm 23.11.2011
On November 23, 2011 Gyumri American Corner hosted U.S. Fulbright Scholar Steven Usitalo with a public lecture entitled "Detroit: City of Ruins, or Renaissance?"
At the beginning of the lecture Nerses Hayrapetyan IRC Embassy Yerevan Director made a little and informative presentation of Walter Isaacson book “Steve Jobs” which interested many ACG visitors. After the book presentation Nerses introduced Steven Usitalo.
Dr. Usitalo started his speech with a short introduction of city Detroit. He gave a presentation about Detroit city, so as everybody could see contemporary sights of Detroit. Large parts of city downtown were all in ruins. A city which once was a big industrial center now has become city of ruins. Usitalo mentioned that there was a great problem of unemployment as nearly all the factories had stopped their work. Usitalo spoke about Educational Institutions in Detroit and mentioned that it was very hard to see some boy pupils or students, as they are in jails. He said that population of Detroit is afraid of walking outdoors as it is not safe, even in the morning or at the afternoon. Steven mentioned that some well known representatives of show-business in America who were brought up in Detroit were trying to help their native city, but there was only a little hope was left that Detroit would be able to recover. Among the big names is Eminem who donates millions of dollars to restore the city.
Though the topic was a sad one, Usitalo’s lecture helped students in Gyumri to think about the future of their city to try to avoid of drugs, jails and try to be able to protect their native city from such problems.
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