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Rodney L. Arroyo, FAICP (he/him/his)

President
City Photos and Books, Inc.
Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan

Rod Arroyo, FAICP, is President of City Photos and Books, Inc., and a retired Partner (Partner Emeritus) with Giffels Webster, a consulting firm based in downtown Detroit. He holds a Master of City Planning degree from Georgia Tech and has served as adjunct faculty in Wayne State University's Graduate Urban Planning Program, bringing over 40 years of planning experience to his work. During his time as a consulting planner, he prepared many award-winning plans and zoning codes.

Currently, Rod serves as a researcher and lecturer on Detroit history, specializing in the historic neighborhoods of Paradise Valley, Black Bottom, and Sugar Hill. His recent research has documented the number, type, and location of Black-owned businesses in these neighborhoods in 1952, approximately the time Detroit's population reached its peak. He has also mapped and documented the numerous jazz clubs and venues that flourished during the 1940s and 1950s, when Detroit musicians played a critical role in the emergence of bebop and other jazz styles. Through his lectures, he shares the story of these once-thriving neighborhoods that were ultimately displaced and damaged by urban renewal projects and freeway construction.

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