The Resource Detroit City is the place to be : the afterlife of an American metropolis, Mark Binelli
Detroit City is the place to be : the afterlife of an American metropolis, Mark Binelli
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- Summary
- "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, neo-pastoral 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 and Rolling Stone writer 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 the signs of blight repurposed, from the school for pregnant teenagers to the killer ex-con turned street patroller, from the organic farming on empty lots to GM's wager on the Volt electric car and 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 future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning--what might just be the first post-industrial city of our new century"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 318 pages
- Contents
-
- Goin' to Detroit, Michigan
- The town of Detroit exists no longer
- DIY city
- Not for us the tame enjoyment
- How to shrink a major American city
- Detroit is dynamite
- Motor City breakdown
- Comeback!
- Austerity 101
- Murder city
- Politics
- Let us paint your factory magenta
- Fabulous ruin
- Isbn
- 9780805092295
- Label
- Detroit City is the place to be : the afterlife of an American metropolis
- Title
- Detroit City is the place to be
- Title remainder
- the afterlife of an American metropolis
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark Binelli
- Subject
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- trueArchitecture
- trueCities and towns
- Cities and towns -- Case studies
- Cities and towns -- United States -- Case studies
- City planning -- Michigan | Detroit
- Detroit (Mich.) -- History -- 20th century
- trueDetroit, Michigan
- trueEnvironmental planning
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
- ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
- trueUrban policy
- trueUrban problems
- trueUrban renewal
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- trueUnited States
- trueUrban beautification
- trueUrban planning
- trueUrban planning -- Case studies
- trueUrban planning -- United States -- Case studies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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, neo-pastoral 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 and Rolling Stone writer 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 the signs of blight repurposed, from the school for pregnant teenagers to the killer ex-con turned street patroller, from the organic farming on empty lots to GM's wager on the Volt electric car and 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 future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning--what might just be the first post-industrial city of our new century"--
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- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10152070
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Binelli, Mark
- Dewey number
- 307.1/2160977434
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HT168.D45
- LC item number
- B56 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- City planning
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
- Detroit (Mich.)
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the afterlife of an American metropolis
- Label
- Detroit City is the place to be : the afterlife of an American metropolis, Mark Binelli
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-302) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- Goin' to Detroit, Michigan -- The town of Detroit exists no longer -- DIY city -- Not for us the tame enjoyment -- How to shrink a major American city -- Detroit is dynamite -- Motor City breakdown -- Comeback! -- Austerity 101 -- Murder city -- Politics -- Let us paint your factory magenta -- Fabulous ruin
- Control code
- 903881
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 318 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805092295
- Lccn
- 2012016123
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780805092295
- (OCoLC)753631067
- Label
- Detroit City is the place to be : the afterlife of an American metropolis, Mark Binelli
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-302) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Goin' to Detroit, Michigan -- The town of Detroit exists no longer -- DIY city -- Not for us the tame enjoyment -- How to shrink a major American city -- Detroit is dynamite -- Motor City breakdown -- Comeback! -- Austerity 101 -- Murder city -- Politics -- Let us paint your factory magenta -- Fabulous ruin
- Control code
- 903881
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 318 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805092295
- Lccn
- 2012016123
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780805092295
- (OCoLC)753631067
Subject
- trueArchitecture
- trueCities and towns
- Cities and towns -- Case studies
- Cities and towns -- United States -- Case studies
- City planning -- Michigan | Detroit
- Detroit (Mich.) -- History -- 20th century
- trueDetroit, Michigan
- trueEnvironmental planning
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
- ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
- trueUrban policy
- trueUrban problems
- trueUrban renewal
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- trueUnited States
- trueUrban beautification
- trueUrban planning
- trueUrban planning -- Case studies
- trueUrban planning -- United States -- Case studies
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