Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
By Mark Binelli.
Description
Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012Once 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 ba...
ISBN(s)
1250039231, 9781250039231
