Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Binelli, Mark
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Binelli, Mark

Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and...
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Author: Mark Binelli
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Language: English
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Binelli, Mark

Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

$66.33
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Binelli, Mark

Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

$66.33
Author: Mark Binelli
Format: MP3 CD
Language: English
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Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. 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. Throughout the city's museum of neglect―its swaths of abandoned buildings, its miles of urban prairie―he tracks both the blight and the signs of its repurposing, from the school for pregnant teenagers to a beleaguered UAW local; from metal scrappers and gun-toting vigilantes to artists reclaiming abandoned auto factories; from the organic farming on empty lots to GM's risky wager on the Volt electric car; from firefighters forced by budget cuts to sleep in tents to the mayor's realignment plan (the most ambitious on record) to move residents of half-empty neighborhoods into a viable, new urban center.

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. Beyond the usual portrait of crime, poverty, and ruin, we glimpse a longshot future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning―what could be the boldest reimagining of a post-industrial city in our new century.



Author: Mark Binelli
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/20/2023
Binding Type: MP3 CD
ISBN: 9798212256339
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