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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New York : Metropolitan Books, 2012.
Date
2012.
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G 2013/1000
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English
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318 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
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 -- Fabul...
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New York : Metropolitan Books, 2012.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2012.
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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, neo-pastoral agriculturalists, a...
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Detroit City is the place to be : the afterlife of an American metropolis / Mark Binelli.
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Includes Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-302)and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2013/1000
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74VvxeBOqz6d
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9780805092295 (hardback)
0805092293 (hardback)
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307.12160977434
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991016914299702626