The city after property : abandonment and repair in postindustrial Detroit / Sara Safransky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Safransky, Sara, author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban--Michigan--Detroit.

Sociology, Urban.

Urban policy--Michigan--Detroit.

Urban policy.

Housing--Abandonment--Michigan--Detroit.

Housing.

African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--Social conditions--21st century.

African Americans.

Right of property--United States.

Right of property.

Property--Social aspects--United States.

Property.

Detroit (Mich.)--Economic conditions--21st century.

Detroit (Mich.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit government officials classified a staggering 150,000 lots-more than a third of the city-as "vacant" or "abandoned." Analyzing subsequent efforts to shrink the Motor City's footprint and budget, Safransky presents a new way of conceptualizing urban abandonment. She challenges popular myths that cast Detroit as empty and narratives that reduce its historical decline to capital and white flight. By connecting contemporary debates over neoliberal urbanism to Cold War histories and the lasting political legacies of global movements for decolonization and Black liberation, she foregrounds how the making of-and challenges to-modern property regimes have shaped urban policy and politics. Drawing on critical geographical theory and community-based ethnography, Safransky shows how private property functions as a racialized construct, an ideology, and moral force that shapes selves and worlds. By thinking the city "after property," Safransky illuminates alternative ways of imagining and organizing urban life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Unbuilding a city

On our own ground

Stealing home

White picket fences

Accounting for unpayable debt

Conjuring Terra Nullius

Political ecologies of austerity

The garden is a weapon in the war.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Safransky, Sara. City after property.

ISBN:

9781478024613

1478024615

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.