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Detroit Divided
Explores the rise and fall of the economic prosperity of the Detroit area, focusing on labour market changes, residential segregation of blacks and whites and racial conflict. Traces the history of the Detroit area from the 17th century to 2000 and examines the development of the labour market since 1940. Analyses the social and economic processes that produced the high levels of racial and residential segregation in metropolitan Detroit and investigates the views of blacks and whites on racial stereotypes and on programmes and policies to minimise racial inequalities. Discusses policy options and suggests that the resurgence of the motor vehicle industry augurs well for the future.
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Reinventing Detroit
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.
Detroit Rich Boys
"Detroit Rich Boys" tells the story of James Mussellistine, better known as Muscles to his friends, a young teenager from the west side of Detroit. He ended up being part of the original Puritan Avenue gang known as the PAs. Although he was raised in a middle-class neighborhood off Six Mile Road, the young gangster couldn't stop hanging out with the likes of Niddy and Roni, two friends from across Puritan Road. When Muscles and his friends enroll in Mumford, Detroit's most volatile school, the roller-coaster lifestyle of gangbanging rolls from the school strait to the streets. The Puritan Gang was the poorest gang in the school, and their numbers were weak compared to their legendary rivals,...
Making Detroit
Making Detroit: History and Mystery provides a readable understanding of the history of Detroit through its endlessly fascinating development, eventual disinvestment and current surge of optimism and redevelopment. As such, it focuses on moments in time where cultural forces created the form of the city and then destroyed it and hypothesizes the potential for a bright future. The book answers the mystery of how the greatest manufacturing city in the world becomes the "poster child" for post-industrial abandonment.Detroit is viewed through the visual and cultural lens of the author: an architects, urban designer, educator and resident of over 45 years. The book is organized into three parts: ...
Dreaming Suburbia
Dreaming Suburbia is a cultural and historical interpretation of the political economy of postwar American suburbanization.
