Reinventing Detroit
The Politics of Possibility
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2015
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Paperback/Softback
268 pages
978-1-4128-5693-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City. Various answers to the former-deindustrialization, white flight, and a disappearing tax base-are now well understood. Less discussed are potential paths forward, stemming from alternative explanations of Detroit's long-term decline and reconsideration of the challenges the city currently faces.
Urban crisis-socioeconomic, fiscal, and political-has seemingly narrowed the range of possible interventions. Growth-oriented redevelopment strategies have not reversed Detroit's decline, but in the wake of crisis, officials have increasingly funnelled limited public resources into the city's commercial core via an implicit policy of "urban triage." The crisis has also led to the emergency management of the city by extra-democratic entities. As a disruptive historical event, Detroit's crisis is a moment teeming with political possibilities.
The critical rethinking of Detroit's past, present, and future is essential reading for both urban studies scholars and the general public.
Urban crisis-socioeconomic, fiscal, and political-has seemingly narrowed the range of possible interventions. Growth-oriented redevelopment strategies have not reversed Detroit's decline, but in the wake of crisis, officials have increasingly funnelled limited public resources into the city's commercial core via an implicit policy of "urban triage." The crisis has also led to the emergency management of the city by extra-democratic entities. As a disruptive historical event, Detroit's crisis is a moment teeming with political possibilities.
The critical rethinking of Detroit's past, present, and future is essential reading for both urban studies scholars and the general public.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
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Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
511 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4128-5693-5 (9781412856935)
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Michael Peter Smith is a distinguished research professor in community studies and development at the University of California, Davis. He is the author, co-author, or editor of twenty-two books and is editor of Transaction's Comparative Urban and Community Research series. L. Owen Kirkpatrick is assistant professor of sociology at Southern Methodist University, USa. He is the author of Sovereignty and the Fragmented City.
Content
Introduction Reinventing Detroit: Urban Decline and the Politics of Possibility Michael Peter Smith and L. Owen KirkpatrickPart I: Theoretical and Epistemological Frameworks1 Rereading Detroit: Toward a Polanyian Methodology L. Owen Kirkpatrick and Michael Peter Smith2 The Spontaneous Sociology of Detroit's Hyper-Crisis Mathieu Hikaru Desan and George Steinmetz3 Learning from Detroit: How Research on a Declining City Enriches Urban Studies Margaret Dewar, Matthew Weber, Eric Seymour, Meagan Elliott, and Patrick Cooper-McCannPart II: How we Got Here: Cities, the State, and Markets4 National Urban Policy and the Fate of Detroit William K. Tabb5 The Normalization of Market Fundamentalism in Detroit: The Case of Land Abandonment Jason HackworthPart III: W here we Are: Fiscal Crisis, Local Democracy, and Neoliberal Austerity6 Detroit in Bankruptcy Reynolds Farley7 Democracy vs. Efficiency in Detroit John Gallagher8 Ritual and Redistribution in De-democratized Detroit L. Owen Kirkpatrick9 Framing Detroit Jamie PeckPart IV: Where we Are Going: Pitfalls and Possibilities10 Detroit Prospects: Why Recovery is Elusive Peter Eisinger11 A Community Wealth-Building Vision for Detroit and Beyond Gar Alperowitz and Steve Dubb12 The Cooperative City: New Visions for Urban Futures David Fasenfest13 Which Way, Detroit? Peter MarcuseAbout the ContributorsIndex