{"product_id":"detroit-city-is-the-place-to-be-paperback","title":"Detroit City Is the Place to Be - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Binelli\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDetroit City Is the Place to Be \u003c\/i\u003eis one of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Top 10 Best Books of 2012 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest--and, finally, into the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. 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, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists--all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Sharp and impassioned, \u003ci\u003eDetroit City Is the Place to Be\u003c\/i\u003e is alive with the sense of possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. Binelli does not shy away from exploring the violence, economic devastation, political corruption, and physical ruin that have ravaged his hometown, but he also offers a glimpse of a long-shot future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning--what could be the boldest reimagining of a postindustrial city in our new century.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Binelli is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eSacco and Vanzetti Must Die!\u003c\/i\u003e and a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e. Born and raised in the Detroit area, he now lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 8.32 x 5.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52406805496115,"sku":"9781250039231","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Y1NlNnJaNEYzTm9pTS9WMitTelNrUT09.webp?v=1758221427","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/detroit-city-is-the-place-to-be-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}