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Cargando... Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis (2012)por Mark Binelli
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a very good book on the current status of Detroit. It does descirbe the problems of crime and long stretches of abandoned homes. However, it does look forward to a better, greener, and less segregated future. He does take up the situation of Highland Park, arguably in worse shape than Detroit which totally surrounds it because its small size an lack of resources. Contrast this with Hamtramck, also surrounded by Detroit, but having strong ethnic traditions, formerly Polish, but now more Balkan or Middle Eastern. Binelli is more of a reporter, so lot his writing is of the snapshot nature, but he does find lots of stories Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. If you are a fan of Anthony Bourdain, you may recognize some of the same style in this book. The author describes the collapse of Detroit, the people who continue to live there, the promising signs of resilience and recovery shooting out of the crumbling infrastructure like flowers growing between cracks in the asphalt. Unfortunately, I didn't really like it as much as I wanted to because I was hoping for more of a public policy perspective - the decisions that destroyed the city, the decisions that are hindering its recovery and the decisions that need to be made to save what's left. Also, he doesn't talk about Eminem enough. :) But it's well written and definitely written with love for the city and the people who remain. Mark Binelli, like me, grew up in the Detroit suburbs. Also like me, he is fascinated by the city for all of its dichotomies. Detroit is at once beautiful and haggard, uplifting and soul-crushing, full of renewal and full of decay, hospitable and frightening. Binelli returns to Detroit, exploring it once again as he searches for the soul of today’s Detroit. A lot of what Binelli discovers is deeply familiar to me. When discussing the present day Detroit, he must also relate the past; Detroit’s past has always been at the forefront and continues to play a major role in how others view the city and how its residents see themselves. The author digs in with newcomers and old hands alike – those entranced by the ruins, those looking for a cheap place to be artistic, those trying to make improvements, those just trying to get by. Despite the uphill climb and the reconciliation of those who have been hurt by this city, there is a lot of hope in his stories and in the people he encounters. This phenomenon is something I can deeply relate to, and I credit Detroit as a catalyst in the formation of my optimism. Detroit is a city with a history of getting beat down, but it is also a city of perpetually getting back up. Detroit just hustles harder. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neo-pastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists--all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier. With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native and Rolling Stone writer Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Throughout the city's "museum of neglect"--its swaths of abandoned buildings, its miles of urban prairie--he tracks the signs of blight repurposed, from the school for pregnant teenagers to the killer ex-con turned street patroller, from the organic farming on empty lots to GM's wager on the Volt electric car and the mayor's realignment plan (the most ambitious on record) to move residents of half-empty neighborhoods into a viable, new urban center. Sharp and impassioned, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is alive with the sense of possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. Beyond the usual portrait of crime, poverty, and ruin, we glimpse a future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning--what might just be the first post-industrial city of our new century"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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He also rails against "ruin porn" and people who go exploring the abandoned buildings, with seemingly little awareness that, without that direction and organisation - without that seriousness of purpose - his book itself does not amount to much more than that. ( )