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Reasons for Decline

- overproduction causing fall of world price

- plastic materials gained importance

- Asian countries produced more cheaply

Detroit

- main business: automobile production

- many still have HQs there (Ford)

- attracting new businesses

- slowly reviving economy

Rust Belt Today

- government funding

- want to become more service oriented

- bankruptcy and debt

Pittsburgh

Historical Develop-ment

- steelworks converted to green areas and ware houses

- big health system

- fifth largest software producer in U.S.A.

Part

One

- European immigrants and African Americans came for work

- tended to have industrial or business skills

- convenient area for steel manufacturing

- 1970's decline started showing

Part

Two

Historical Develop-ment

- people moved to Sun Belt

- businesses moved away

- factories started closing

Location Factors

- Appalachians

- Natural resources

- Lakes

- Climate

Why

is

it

called

Rust Belt?

Where and What is it?

The Rust Belt

- formerly important area for steel factories

- mostly in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York

- cities very affected by it:

- Detroit

- Pittsburgh

- Baltimore

Key Industries

Examples

-steel production

- iron poduction

-automobile industry

-Pittsburgh

-Detroit

-Baltimore

By Anna and Amelie

Sources

http://www.encyclopedia.com/places/united-states-and-canada/miscellaneous-us-geography/rust-belt

http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/Rust-Belt.htm

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/economic-policy-papers/competition-and-the-decline-of-the-rust-belt

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Youngstown,_Ohio

http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/Rust-Belt.htm

https://eh.net/?s=manufacturing+belt

http://immigrantimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/rustbelt-sunbelt-map.jpg

http://www.freeworldmaps.net/northamerica/united-states/us-physical-map.jpg

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