268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Michael Peter Smith
