Beautiful Terrible Ruins
Subtitle: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Jun 23, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780813574073
Description: "Apel shows how Detroit has become pivotal to an expanding network of ruin imagery that speaks to the overarching anxieties of our era: increasing poverty, declining wages and social services, inadequate health care, unemployment, homelessness, and ecological disaster - in short, the failure of capitalism."
Notes: Source title: Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline