Reinventing Detroit
Subtitle: the Politics of Possibility
By: Michael Peter Smith
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781315128306
Subjects: Urban policy; Urban renewal; Shrinking cities; Municipal government; Municipal finance; Economic conditions; Politique urbaine; Rénovation urbaine; Villes en décroissance; Administration municipale; Finances municipales; Economic history
Description: "This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City. Various answers to the former-deindustrialization, white flight, and a disappearing tax base-are now well understood. Less discussed are potential paths forward, stemming from alternative explanations of Detroit's long-term decline and reconsideration of the challenges the city currently faces. Urban crisis-socioeconomic, fiscal, and political-has seemingly narrowed the range of possible interventions. Growth-oriented redevelopment strategies have not reversed Detroit's decline, but in the wake of crisis, officials have increasingly funnelled limited public resources into the city's commercial core via an implicit policy of "urban triage." The crisis has also led to the emergency management of the city by extra-democratic entities. As a disruptive historical event, Detroit's crisis is a moment teeming with political possibilities. The critical rethinking of Detroit's past, present, and future is essential reading for both urban studies scholars and the general public."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction-Reinventing Detroit: Urban Decline and the Politics of Possibility; Part I: Theoretical and Epistemological Frameworks; 1 Rereading Detroit: Toward a Polanyian Methodology; 2 The Spontaneous Sociology of Detroit's Hyper-Crisis; 3 Learning from Detroit: How Research on a Declining City Enriches Urban Studies; Part II: How We Got Here: Cities, the State, and Markets; 4 National Urban Policy and the Fate of Detroit; 5 The Normalization of Market Fundamentalism in Detroit: The Case of Land Abandonment.; title: Part III: Where We Are: Fiscal Crisis, Local Democracy, and Neoliberal Austerity6 Detroit in Bankruptcy; 7 Democracy vs. Efficiency in Detroit; 8 Ritual and Redistribution in De-democratized Detroit; 9 Framing Detroit; Part IV: Where We Are Going: Pitfalls and Possibilities; 10 Detroit Prospects: Why Recovery is Elusive; 11 A Community Wealth-Building Vision for Detroit-and Beyond ; 12 The Cooperative City: New Visions for Urban Futures; 13 Which Way, ""Detroit""?; About the Contributors; Index.