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The unreal estate guide to Detroit / Andrew Herscher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herscher, Andrew, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Michigan--Detroit.
- City planning.
- Urban policy--Michigan--Detroit.
- Urban policy.
- Real estate business--Michigan--Detroit.
- Real estate business.
- Detroit (Mich.)--Social policy.
- Detroit (Mich.).
- Michigan--Detroit.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Estate guide to Detroit
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- What if Detroit has not only fallen apart, emptied out, disappeared and/or shrunk, but has also transformed, becoming a novel urban formation that offers potentials as well as challenges? In recent years, this proposition has sponsored a growing number of responses, from small-scale ephemeral interventions to longer-term place-based activism, all availing themselves of Detroit's vast repository of devalued, abandoned or vacant urban property. Posing these diverse responses as aspects of a condition rather than solutions to a problem, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit tells a new story of the city in a time of conjoined precarity and possibility-a story of urban decline yielding conditions favorable for urban experimentation, invention and, perhaps, change. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Unprofessional Practices
- Ruin Harvest 24
- Detroit Demolition Disneyland 26
- FireBreak 30
- Salvaged Landscape 34
- Food Infill 38
- Earthworks Urban Farm 40
- D-Town Farm 44
- Georgia Street Community Garden 48
- Brightmoor Farmway 52
- Peaches and Greens 56
- Field of Our Dreams 60
- Municipal Therapy 64
- Motor City Blight Busters 66
- Creening of Detroit 70
- Hope District 74
- Navin Field Grounds Crew 78
- Detroit Mower Cang 82
- Furtive Inhabitation 86
- Detroit Blues 88
- Hookie Monsters 92
- Urban Yoga Lab 96
- Seed Detroit 100
- Unwarranted Techniques
- Feral Research 106
- Detroit Geographical Expedition 108
- Pink Pony Express 112
- Waste Curation 116
- Tree of Heaven Woodshop 118
- Architectural Salvage Warehouse 122
- Friends of Gorgeous Berries 126
- Public Secrecy 130
- Hygienic Dress League 132
- Secret Pizza Party 136
- Trtl 140
- Radical Hospitality 144
- Boggs Center 146
- Catherine Ferguson Academy 150
- Block Clubbing 154
- Unsanctioned Collectives
- Temporary Communities 160
- Dally in the Alley 162
- Theatre Bizarre 166
- Detroit Guerrilla Queer Bar 170
- John's Carpet House 174
- Tashmoo Biergarten 178
- Do-lt-Yourself-Then-Together 182
- UFO Factory 184
- Yes Farm 188
- Micropolitanism 192
- Farnsworth Street 194
- Fourth Street 198
- Trumbullplex 202
- Urban Toeholds 206
- Center for Creative exchange 208
- Filter Detroit 212
- Ego Circus 216
- Unsolicited Constructions
- Accidental Architecture 222
- Michigan Building Parking Garage 224
- Peacemakers International 228
- Blotting 232
- Extreme Housework 236
- Detroit Industrial Gallery 238
- Full Scale Design Lab 242
- Power House 246
- Scavenged Space 250
- Alley Culture 252
- Crafikjam Alleys 256
- The Lot 260
- Submerge 264
- Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit 268
- Patrimony of the Unlost 272
- Hamtramck Disneyland 274
- Car Wash Café 278
- African Bead Museum 282
- Heidelberg Project 286.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472029174
- 0472029177
- 9780472035212
- 0472035215
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/dcbooks.12103229.0001.001
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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