Detroit City Is the Place to Be

Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of...
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Author: Mark Binelli
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be by Binelli, Mark

Detroit City Is the Place to Be

Dhs. 105.64

Detroit City Is the Place to Be

Dhs. 105.64
Author: Mark Binelli
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012

Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest--and, finally, into the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists--all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier.

With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Sharp and impassioned, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is alive with the sense of possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. Binelli does not shy away from exploring the violence, economic devastation, political corruption, and physical ruin that have ravaged his hometown, but he also offers a glimpse of a long-shot future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning--what could be the boldest reimagining of a postindustrial city in our new century.

Author: Mark Binelli
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 11/05/2013
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.49w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9781250039231


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/24/2013 pg. 36

About the Author
Mark Binelli is the author of the novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. Born and raised in the Detroit area, he now lives in New York City.


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