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Overview"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 currently faces. Urban crisis—socioeconomic, fiscal, and political—has seemingly narrowed the range of possible interventions. Growth-oriented redevelopment strategies have not reversed Detroit's decline, but in the wake of crisis, officials have increasingly funnelled limited public resources into the city's commercial core via an implicit policy of ""urban triage."" The crisis has also led to the emergency management of the city by extra-democratic entities. As a disruptive historical event, Detroit's crisis is a moment teeming with political possibilities. The critical rethinking of Detroit's past, present, and future is essential reading for both urban studies scholars and the general public." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Peter Smith , Lucas KirkpatrickPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Volume: 11 Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.498kg ISBN: 9781412856935ISBN 10: 1412856930 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 30 September 2015 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 ContributorsIndexReviews-Reinventing Detroit informs on a multitude of levels. Besides presenting an interdisciplinary analysis of the causes underlying Detroit's slide into bankruptcy, it builds on its discussion of the structural factors underlying that city's situation to develop a broad critique of conventional approaches to urban problem solving. It further examines the political forces affecting urban governance and offers alternative, progressive possibilities. This is an exceptional book in which a number of well-known urbanists provide a complex, original investigation of the causes and consequences of urban shrinkage. --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design -By now a lot of ink has been spilled in the national press about Detroit's fiscal crisis. What we need now is a deeper understanding of how social and political dynamics are shaping the city's attempts to reinvent a better future for itself. The essays in this book offer exactly the kind of nuanced analysis required for this important project.- --Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago -Reinventing Detroit informs on a multitude of levels. Besides presenting an interdisciplinary analysis of the causes underlying Detroit's slide into bankruptcy, it builds on its discussion of the structural factors underlying that city's situation to develop a broad critique of conventional approaches to urban problem solving. It further examines the political forces affecting urban governance and offers alternative, progressive possibilities. This is an exceptional book in which a number of well-known urbanists provide a complex, original investigation of the causes and consequences of urban shrinkage. --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design -By now a lot of ink has been spilled in the national press about Detroit's fiscal crisis. What we need now is a deeper understanding of how social and political dynamics are shaping the city's attempts to reinvent a better future for itself. The essays in this book offer exactly the kind of nuanced analysis required for this important project.- --Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago Reinventing Detroit informs on a multitude of levels. Besides presenting an interdisciplinary analysis of the causes underlying Detroit's slide into bankruptcy, it builds on its discussion of the structural factors underlying that city's situation to develop a broad critique of conventional approaches to urban problem solving. It further examines the political forces affecting urban governance and offers alternative, progressive possibilities. This is an exceptional book in which a number of well-known urbanists provide a complex, original investigation of the causes and consequences of urban shrinkage. --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design By now a lot of ink has been spilled in the national press about Detroit's fiscal crisis. What we need now is a deeper understanding of how social and political dynamics are shaping the city's attempts to reinvent a better future for itself. The essays in this book offer exactly the kind of nuanced analysis required for this important project. --Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago Reinventing Detroit informs on a multitude of levels. Besides presenting an interdisciplinary analysis of the causes underlying Detroit's slide into bankruptcy, it builds on its discussion of the structural factors underlying that city's situation to develop a broad critique of conventional approaches to urban problem solving. It further examines the political forces affecting urban governance and offers alternative, progressive possibilities. This is an exceptional book in which a number of well-known urbanists provide a complex, original investigation of the causes and consequences of urban shrinkage. --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design By now a lot of ink has been spilled in the national press about Detroit's fiscal crisis. What we need now is a deeper understanding of how social and political dynamics are shaping the city's attempts to reinvent a better future for itself. The essays in this book offer exactly the kind of nuanced analysis required for this important project. --Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago Reinventing Detroit informs on a multitude of levels. Besides presenting an interdisciplinary analysis of the causes underlying Detroit's slide into bankruptcy, it builds on its discussion of the structural factors underlying that city's situation to develop a broad critique of conventional approaches to urban problem solving. It further examines the political forces affecting urban governance and offers alternative, progressive possibilities. This is an exceptional book in which a number of well-known urbanists provide a complex, original investigation of the causes and consequences of urban shrinkage. --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design By now a lot of ink has been spilled in the national press about Detroit's fiscal crisis. What we need now is a deeper understanding of how social and political dynamics are shaping the city's attempts to reinvent a better future for itself. The essays in this book offer exactly the kind of nuanced analysis required for this important project. --Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago Author InformationMichael Peter Smith is a distinguished research professor in community studies and development at the University of California, Davis. He is the author, co-author, or editor of twenty-two books and is editor of Transaction's Comparative Urban and Community Research series. L. Owen Kirkpatrick is assistant professor of sociology at Southern Methodist University, USa. He is the author of Sovereignty and the Fragmented City. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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