Binelli, Mark.

Detroit City is the place to be : the afterlife of an American metropolis / Mark Binelli.

New York : Metropolitan Books, 2012.

318 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

0805092293 (hardback)
9780805092295 (hardback)
1250039231 (pbk.)
9781250039231 (pbk.)

City planning Michigan Detroit.
Cities and towns Michigan Detroit.
Villes Michigan Detroit.
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)
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Detroit (Mich.) History 20th century.
Michigan Detroit.

Nonfiction.
History.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 282305
Cote: BIB 219696
Statut: Disponible