Reinventing Detroit: The Politics of Possibility (Comparative Urban and Community Research) - Softcover

-Reinventing Detroit informs on a multitude of levels. Besides presenting an interdisciplinary analysis of the causes underlying Detroit's slide into bankruptcy, it builds on its discussion of the structural factors underlying that city's situation to develop a broad critique of conventional approaches to urban problem solving. It further examines the political forces affecting urban governance and offers alternative, progressive possibilities. This is an exceptional book in which a number of well-known urbanists provide a complex, original investigation of the causes and consequences of urban shrinkage. --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design -By now a lot of ink has been spilled in the national press about Detroit's fiscal crisis. What we need now is a deeper understanding of how social and political dynamics are shaping the city's attempts to reinvent a better future for itself. The essays in this book offer exactly the kind of nuanced analysis required for this important project.- --Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago "Reinventing Detroit informs on a multitude of levels. Besides presenting an interdisciplinary analysis of the causes underlying Detroit's slide into bankruptcy, it builds on its discussion of the structural factors underlying that city's situation to develop a broad critique of conventional approaches to urban problem solving. It further examines the political forces affecting urban governance and offers alternative, progressive possibilities. This is an exceptional book in which a number of well-known urbanists provide a complex, original investigation of the causes and consequences of urban shrinkage. --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design "By now a lot of ink has been spilled in the national press about Detroit's fiscal crisis. What we need now is a deeper understanding of how social and political dynamics are shaping the city's attempts to reinvent a better future for itself. The essays in this book offer exactly the kind of nuanced analysis required for this important project." --Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago "Reinventing Detroit informs on a multitude of levels. Besides presenting an interdisciplinary analysis of the causes underlying Detroit's slide into bankruptcy, it builds on its discussion of the structural factors underlying that city's situation to develop a broad critique of conventional approaches to urban problem solving. It further examines the political forces affecting urban governance and offers alternative, progressive possibilities. This is an exceptional book in which a number of well-known urbanists provide a complex, original investigation of the causes and consequences of urban shrinkage. --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design "By now a lot of ink has been spilled in the national press about Detroit's fiscal crisis. What we need now is a deeper understanding of how social and political dynamics are shaping the city's attempts to reinvent a better future for itself. The essays in this book offer exactly the kind of nuanced analysis required for this important project." --Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago