She is the author of the forthcoming book Cities Without Services: Do-It-Yourself Urbanism in Detroit’s Spaces of Disinvestment (University of Minnesota Press). Dr. Kinder’s current research explores strategies that residents use at the household scale to negotiate processes of market and government disinvestment in Detroit. Her earlier work, reflected in a second forthcoming book, The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam (University of Georgia Press), explores similar processes of quasi-formal spatial intervention and collective governance in the context of urban growth. Dr. Kinder received her Ph.D in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.