Tag: detroit
Steve Fraser: The Archeology of Decline
December 2012Debtpocalypse, austerity, and the hollowing out of America.
Jay Walljasper: The Surprise Behind Detroit’s Emerging Comeback
October 2012Young people are making a difference in the cities they call home.
Jay Walljasper: Not Your Father’s Motor City
August 2012Southwest Detroit has defied the stereotype of urban decay.
Off the Grid
June 2011A photographer and former Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana observes the beauty of the dark and the politics of electricity. (With video.)
Guernica Contributor John Patrick Leary on WDET About “Detroitism”
February 2011 |
“A lot of the interest comes from a sense that the city of Detroit isn’t just an exception to the rule of the United States…that Detroit is, in some sense, the future of American cities…” |
John Patrick Leary: Further Reading for “Detroitism”
January 2011 |
Leary, author of this issue’s “Detroitism,” offers reading recommendations for putting together Detroit’s story, as well as the increasingly-familiar story of urban America in an era of prolonged economic crisis. |
Jay Walljasper: Detroit City Limits: Finding Devastation and Hope in a Hard Hit City
July 2010The urban-suburban divide in Detroit shows the need to treat a metropolitan area as a single organism, rooted in a sense of the commons.
