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