Detroit City Is the Place to Be by Agent Sterling Lord Literistic Mark Binelli

Detroit City Is the Place to Be by Agent Sterling Lord Literistic Mark Binelli

Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012

Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest--and, finally, into the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. 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, 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 hometown, but he also offers a glimpse of a long-shot future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning--what could be the boldest reimagining of a postindustrial city in our new century.

Binelli, Mark: - Mark Binelli is the author of Detroit City Is the Place to Be and the novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! as well as a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Men's Journal. Born and raised in the Detroit area, he lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780805092295
ISBN 10	0805092293
Title	Detroit City Is the Place to Be
Author	Agent Sterling Lord Literistic Mark Binelli
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Metropolitan Books
Year published	2012-11-13
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Winner of Michigan Notable Books 2013, Commended for Society of Midland Authors Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2013
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.