That's exactly what happened to Pittsburgh as well. There are some areas near downtown and the university areas that are finally getting better, but not less th

That's exactly what happened to Pittsburgh as well. There are some areas near downtown and the university areas that are finally getting better, but not less than 2 miles from those areas are entire neighborhoods and small towns that have been abandoned for decades. Pittsburgh's decline predates the fall of Detroit by a decade or two (most of the steel mills shut down in the early 70s) but the parallels are striking.