Reinventing Detroit: The Politics of Possibility

ISBN-13: 9781138531673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 266 str.

Michael Peter Smith; Lucas Kirkpatrick

Opis

This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City

Spis treści

Introduction Reinventing Detroit: Urban Decline and the
Politics of Possibility
Michael Peter Smith and L. Owen Kirkpatrick

Part I: Theoretical and Epistemological Frameworks

1 Rereading Detroit: Toward a Polanyian Methodology
L. Owen Kirkpatrick and Michael Peter Smith

2 The Spontaneous Sociology of Detroit's Hyper-Crisis
Mathieu Hikaru Desan and George Steinmetz

3 Learning from Detroit: How Research on a Declining City Enriches Urban Studies
Margaret Dewar, Matthew Weber, Eric Seymour, Meagan Elliott, and Patrick Cooper-McCann

Part II: How we Got Here: Cities, the State, and Markets

4 National Urban Policy and the Fate of Detroit
William K. Tabb

5 The Normalization of Market Fundamentalism in Detroit: The Case of Land Abandonment
Jason Hackworth

Part III: W here we Are: Fiscal Crisis, Local Democracy, and Neoliberal Austerity

6 Detroit in Bankruptcy
Reynolds Farley

7 Democracy vs. Efficiency in Detroit
John Gallagher

8 Ritual and Redistribution in De-democratized Detroit
L. Owen Kirkpatrick

9 Framing Detroit
Jamie Peck

Part IV: Where we Are Going: Pitfalls and Possibilities

10 Detroit Prospects: Why Recovery is Elusive
Peter Eisinger

11 A Community Wealth-Building Vision for Detroit and Beyond
Gar Alperowitz and Steve Dubb

12 The Cooperative City: New Visions for Urban Futures
David Fasenfest

13 Which Way, "Detroit"?
Peter Marcuse

About the Contributors

Index

O autorze

Michael Peter Smith