Title:
Detroit City is the Place to Be

dc.contributor.author Binelli, Mark
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Architecture en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2013-09-04T15:45:40Z
dc.date.available 2013-09-04T15:45:40Z
dc.date.issued 2013-08-28
dc.description Presented on August 28, 2013 from 6:00 pm-7:45 pm in the Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium on the Georgia Tech campus. en_US
dc.description Mark Binelli is the author of Detroit City Is the Place To Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis and the novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! He grew up in metro Detroit and lived in Atlanta for six years before moving to New York City. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Men's Journal. Detroit City Is the Place to Be was one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012.
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dc.description.abstract 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. 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. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/48778
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dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
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dc.subject Architecture en_US
dc.subject City planning en_US
dc.subject Detroit en_US
dc.subject Financial crisis in Detroit en_US
dc.title Detroit City is the Place to Be en_US
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