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OverviewBringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story examines how the reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping the city for decades. Herbert lived in Detroit for almost five years to get a ground-view sense of how this process molds urban areas—participating in community meetings and tax foreclosure protests, interviewing various groups, following scrappers through abandoned buildings, and visiting squatted houses and gardens. Herbert found that there’s a disjunction between different types of property reclaimers: lifestyle back-to-the-earth new residents, primarily more privileged, whose practices are often formalized by local policies, and longtime more disempowered residents, often representing communities of color, whose practices are marked as illegal and illegitimate. She teases out how the divergent treatment of these two approaches to informally claiming property reproduces long-standing inequalities in race, class, and property ownership. More generally, A Detroit Story examines how the attempt to formalize property informality in cities harms the most vulnerable. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Claire W. HerbertPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780520340077ISBN 10: 0520340078 Pages: 316 Publication Date: 16 March 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIllustrations and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Social and Spatial Context 1. Urban Decline and Informality 2. Regulations and Enforcement 3. From Illicit to Informal Part II Informality in Everyday Life 4. Beyond Politics or Poverty 5. Necessity Appropriators 6. Lifestyle Appropriators 7. Routine Appropriators Part III Informal Plans and Formal Policies 8. Surviving the City or Settling the City? 9. Regulating Informality, Reproducing Inequality Conclusion: Lessons for Informality in the Global North Appendix: Research Methods and Data Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAn exceptional piece of urban ethnography. . . . While one might be tempted to situate such a countermovement in the gentrification literature, Herbert's work insists on a more complex interpretation, one that could extend the immense amount she has already taught us about property relations under duress. * Social Forces * This is an important book. * AAG Review of Books * An exceptional piece of urban ethnography. . . . While one might be tempted to situate such a countermovement in the gentrification literature, Herbert's work insists on a more complex interpretation, one that could extend the immense amount she has already taught us about property relations under duress. * Social Forces * This is an important book. * AAG Review of Books * A Detroit Story is an original and engaging book on a well-researched city. . . . [It] provides an invaluable contribution to urban studies research and is relevant for researchers in myriad disciplines as well as upper division undergraduate and graduate students. Anyone with an interest in Detroit and shrinking cities, as well as planners and policymakers who work in these contexts, will also appreciate the assessment of how-albeit unintentionally-planning and policy can and will reproduce inequality if they fail to recognize how people live and why. * International Journal of Urban Regional Research * A Detroit Story is a deeply, even lovingly, Detroit-focused book. There is a risk in studying such a unique and fascinating place: informality in Detroit is at once relatively well-trodden ground and at the same time not obviously full of parallels for other cities or broader concepts. Yet Herbert points this out, makes connections to other postgrowth cities, and makes the excellent point that property informality is enacted and experienced differently across social contexts. The result is a uniquely sociological contribution to the literature on urban informality and to how we understand property outside of real estate. * American Journal of Sociology * Author InformationClaire Herbert is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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