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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

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Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one in all Publishers Weekly‘s Top 10 Absolute best Books of 2012

Once The usa’s capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country’s greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest―and, in spite of everything, into the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. However the city’s worst crisis yet (and that is the reason 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. 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. Binelli does not shy away from exploring the violence, economic devastation, political corruption, and physical ruin that have ravaged his native land, but he also offers a glimpse of a long-shot future Detroit that may be smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning―what may well be the boldest reimagining of a postindustrial city in our new century.

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