Detroit City Is The Place To Be
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Detroit City Is The Place To Be
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Author : Mark Binelli
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2012-11-13
Detroit City Is The Place To Be written by Mark Binelli and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-13 with Social Science categories.
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, 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. Throughout the city's "museum of neglect"—its swaths of abandoned buildings, its miles of urban prairie—he tracks both the blight and the signs of its repurposing, from the school for pregnant teenagers to a beleaguered UAW local; from metal scrappers and gun-toting vigilantes to artists reclaiming abandoned auto factories; from the organic farming on empty lots to GM's risky wager on the Volt electric car; from firefighters forced by budget cuts to sleep in tents to the mayor's realignment plan (the most ambitious on record) to move residents of half-empty neighborhoods into a viable, new urban center. 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. Beyond the usual portrait of crime, poverty, and ruin, we glimpse a longshot future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning—what could be the boldest reimagining of a post-industrial city in our new century. Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012
The Last Days Of Detroit
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Author : Mark Binelli
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-01-10
The Last Days Of Detroit written by Mark Binelli and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-10 with History categories.
Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots, arson, unemployment, crime and corruption. But what happens to a once-great place after it has been used up and discarded? Who stays there to try to make things work again? And what sorts of newcomers are drawn there? Mark Binelli returned to his native Detroit to explore the city's swathes of abandoned buildings, miles of urban prairie, and streets filled with wild dogs, to tell the story of the new society emerging from the debris. Here he chronicles Detroit with its urban farms and vibrant arts scene, Detroit as a laboratory for the post-industrial, post-recession world, Detroit reimagined as a city for a new century.
Detroit City Directories
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
Detroit City Directories written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Birmingham (Mich.) categories.
Reimagining Detroit
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Author : John Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2010
Reimagining Detroit written by John Gallagher and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with City planning categories.
Suggests ways for Detroit to become a smaller but better city in the twenty first century and proposes productive uses for the city's vacant spaces.
Detroit Blue Book
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Detroit Blue Book written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Detroit (Mich.) categories.
Detroit Is No Dry Bones
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Author : Camilo J. Vergara
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2016-11-16
Detroit Is No Dry Bones written by Camilo J. Vergara and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-16 with Photography categories.
A photographic record of almost three decades of Detroit's changing urban fabric
Detroit Is My Own Home Town Classic Reprint
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Author : Malcolm W. Bingay
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-27
Detroit Is My Own Home Town Classic Reprint written by Malcolm W. Bingay and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-27 with categories.
Detroit Is My Own Home Town presents a comprehensive history of Detroit, Michigan as written by Malcolm W. Bingay. As a lifelong resident of Detroit, Bingay has a lot invested in the text, and in the accurate and sentimental portrayal of the history of his hometown, which is more often than not painted with the brush of industry and crime. Bingay presents information from a range of sources to create a full picture of the history of Detroit and its place in the larger story of American history, making a point to highlight the spirit of the town as captured in its many hardworking residents. The book begins with Detroit's humble beginnings as a French trading post which eventually is turned into a military post intended to protect traders and civilians from the raids of Native Americans in the region. The book discusses Detroit prior to the American Revolutionary War, Detroit as Michigan becomes a state, and Detroit though more contemporary years. Bingay discusses Detroit's importance in the auto industry, which it is probably best known for, and even touches on Detroit's baseball team, the mighty Tigers. Many of the articles hone in on specific individuals who were important to Detroit's history such as Charles F. Kettering, Walter P. Chrysler, and Henry Ford. For readers intrigued by the city of Detroit, Detroit Is My Own Home Town provides a wonderful look at this great city and its lengthy history. Written by Detroit native Malcom W. Bingay, this book contains both historic information and personal anecdotes. This is a great book for historians, individuals interested in Detroit, and for readers who have lived in the Detroit area and will recognize the places that Bingay explores in the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Detroit
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Author : Charlie LeDuff
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-02-07
Detroit written by Charlie LeDuff and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An explosive exposé of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff “One cannot read Mr. LeDuff's amalgam of memoir and reportage and not be shaken by the cold eye he casts on hard truths . . . A little gonzo, a little gumshoe, some gawker, some good-Samaritan—it is hard to ignore reporting like Mr. LeDuff's.” —The Wall Street Journal “Pultizer-Prize-winning journalist LeDuff . . . writes with honesty and compassion about a city that’s destroying itself–and breaking his heart.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness.” —Kirkus Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches the ruins of Detroit for clues to his family’s troubled past. Having led us on the way up, Detroit now seems to be leading us on the way down. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation’s poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age—mass-production, blue-collar jobs, and automobiles—Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, dropouts, and foreclosures. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark, and the righteous indignation only a native son possesses, LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city. He beats on the doors of union bosses and homeless squatters, powerful businessmen and struggling homeowners and the ordinary people holding the city together by sheer determination. Detroit: An American Autopsy is an unbelievable story of a hard town in a rough time filled with some of the strangest and strongest people our country has to offer.
Detroit City Directories
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1837
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Watershed Discipleship
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Author : Ched Myers
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-10-21
Watershed Discipleship written by Ched Myers and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with Religion categories.
This collection introduces and explores "watershed discipleship" as a critical, contextual, and constructive approach to ecological theology and practice, and features emerging voices from a generation that has grown up under the shadow of climate catastrophe. Watershed Discipleship is a "triple entendre" that recognizes we are in a watershed historical moment of crisis, focuses on our intrinsically bioregional locus as followers of Jesus, and urges us to become disciples of our watersheds. Bibliographic framing essays by Myers trace his journey into a bioregionalist Christian faith and practice and offer reflections on incarnational theology, hermeneutics, and ecclesiology. The essays feature more than a dozen activists, educators, and practitioners under the age of forty, whose work and witness attest to a growing movement of resistance and reimagination across North America. This anthology overviews the bioregional paradigm and its theological and political significance for local sustainability, restorative justice, and spiritual renewal. Contributors reread both biblical texts and churchly practices (such as mission, baptism, and liturgy) through the lens of "re-place-ment." Herein is a comprehensive and engaged call for a "Transition church" that can help turn our history around toward environmental resiliency and social justice, by passionate advocates on the front lines of watershed discipleship. CONTRIBUTORS: Sasha Adkins, Jay Beck, Tevyn East, Erinn Fahey, Katarina Friesen, Matt Humphrey, Vickie Machado, Jonathan McRay, Sarah Nolan, Reyna Ortega, Dave Pritchett, Erynn Smith, Sarah Thompson, Lydia Wylie-Kellermann