Description: This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City
Brief description:
Michael Peter Smith is distinguished research professor in Community Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is co-author of the award-winning book Citizenship across Borders, and is the series editor of Transaction's Comparative Urban and Community Research book series.
Review Quotes:
"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