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- ISBN
- 9780816697076
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816697078
ISBN-13
9780816697076
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219362038
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Diy Detroit : Making Do in a City Without Services
Subject
Public Affairs & Administration, Development / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Regional Studies, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Economic Conditions, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2015-008728
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"The book moves easily between personal and neighborhood stories, and big-picture reflections. The thinking is of high quality and the prose is readable rather than academic."-- Planning Magazine "Geographic, ethnographic, and often narratively compelling."-- Consumption Markets & Culture "HIghly readable."-- CHOICE " DIY Detroit is filled with these simultaneously inspiring and heartbreaking tales of perseverance and innovation. Worthwhile."-- Reason.com " DIY Detroit is frankly the Detroit book I have been waiting for. It adds a much-needed perspective to the literatures on urban decay and collective self-provisioning activities."-- H-Net Reviews "Ultimately, Kinder has produced a timely and detailed account of how residents are getting by amidst disinvestment. Her ability to bring her characters and neighborhoods alive by elucidating otherwise unremarkable moments and encounters is impressive. DIY Detroit is an eminently accessible text, stemming, in part, from Kinder's skill at crafting crisp sentences and her choice to leave citations to the endnotes."-- Antipode "An engaging and informative read, which also makes a compelling argument for the value of qualitative urban research."-- Housing Studies, "The book moves easily between personal and neighborhood stories, and big-picture reflections. The thinking is of high quality and the prose is readable rather than academic."-- Planning Magazine, "The book moves easily between personal and neighborhood stories, and big-picture reflections. The thinking is of high quality and the prose is readable rather than academic."-- Planning Magazine "Geographic, ethnographic, and often narratively compelling."-- Consumption Markets & Culture, "The book moves easily between personal and neighborhood stories, and big-picture reflections. The thinking is of high quality and the prose is readable rather than academic."-- Planning Magazine "Geographic, ethnographic, and often narratively compelling."-- Consumption Markets & Culture "HIghly readable."-- CHOICE " DIY Detroit is filled with these simultaneously inspiring and heartbreaking tales of perseverance and innovation. Worthwhile."-- Reason.com " DIY Detroit is frankly the Detroit book I have been waiting for. It adds a much-needed perspective to the literatures on urban decay and collective self-provisioning activities."-- H-Net Reviews "Ultimately, Kinder has produced a timely and detailed account of how residents are getting by amidst disinvestment. Her ability to bring her characters and neighborhoods alive by elucidating otherwise unremarkable moments and encounters is impressive. DIY Detroit is an eminently accessible text, stemming, in part, from Kinder's skill at crafting crisp sentences and her choice to leave citations to the endnotes."-- Antipode "An engaging and informative read, which also makes a compelling argument for the value of qualitative urban research."-- Housing Studies, "The book moves easily between personal and neighborhood stories, and big-picture reflections. The thinking is of high quality and the prose is readable rather than academic."-- Planning Magazine "Geographic, ethnographic, and often narratively compelling."-- Consumption Markets & Culture "HIghly readable."-- CHOICE " DIY Detroit is filled with these simultaneously inspiring and heartbreaking tales of perseverance and innovation. Worthwhile."-- Reason.com " DIY Detroit is frankly the Detroit book I have been waiting for. It adds a much-needed perspective to the literatures on urban decay and collective self-provisioning activities."-- H-Net Reviews "Ultimately, Kinder has produced a timely and detailed account of how residents are getting by amidst disinvestment. Her ability to bring her characters and neighborhoods alive by elucidating otherwise unremarkable moments and encounters is impressive. DIY Detroit is an eminently accessible text, stemming, in part, from Kinder's skill at crafting crisp sentences and her choice to leave citations to the endnotes."-- Antipode "An engaging and informative read, which also makes a compelling argument for the value of qualitative urban research."-- Housing Studies " DIY Detroit is a beautifully written book. Kinder's account provides important insights into ongoing debates over the future of the so-called comparative gesture in a more geographically pluralistic urban geography." -- AAG Review of Books, "Kimberley Kinder's DIY Detroit is a clever, beautifully written account of everyday life in the wake of conventional market collapse and decades of austerity. It describes the ways that Detroiters have adapted, often defensively, always informally, sometimes illegally, to life without conventional markets and routine municipal services."--Jason Hackworth, author of Neoliberal City
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
307.1/40977434
Table Of Content
Contents Introduction: Self-Provisioning in Detroit 1. Do-It-Yourself Cities 2. Seeking New Neighbors 3. Protecting Vacant Homes 4. Repurposing Abandonment 5. Domesticating Public Works 6. Policing Home Spaces 7. Producing Local Knowledge Conclusion: Triumphs of Hope over Reason Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
For ten years James Robertson walked the twenty-one-mile round-trip from his Detroit home to his factory job; when his story went viral, it brought him an outpouring of attention and support. But what of Robertson's Detroit neighbors, likewise stuck in a blighted city without services as basic as a bus line? What they're left with, after decades of disinvestment and decline, is DIY urbanism--sweeping their own streets, maintaining public parks, planting community gardens, boarding up empty buildings, even acting as real estate agents and landlords for abandoned homes. DIY Detroit describes a phenomenon that, in our times of austerity measures and market-based governance, has become woefully routine as inhabitants of deteriorating cities "domesticate" public services in order to get by. The voices that animate this book humanize Detroit's troubles--from a middle-class African American civic activist drawn back by a crisis of conscience; to a young Latina stay-at-home mom who has never left the city and whose husband works in construction; to a European woman with a mixed-race adopted family and a passion for social reform, who introduces a chicken coop, goat shed, and market garden into the neighborhood. These people show firsthand how living with disinvestment means getting organized to manage public works on a neighborhood scale, helping friends and family members solve logistical problems, and promoting creativity, compassion, and self-direction as an alternative to broken dreams and passive lifestyles. Kimberley Kinder reveals how the efforts of these Detroiters and others like them create new urban logics and transform the expectations residents have about their environments. At the same time she cautions against romanticizing such acts, which are, after all, short-term solutions to a deep and spreading social injustice that demands comprehensive change., For ten years James Robertson walked the twenty-one-mile round-trip from his Detroit home to his factory job; when his story went viral, it brought him an outpouring of attention and support. But what of Robertson s Detroit neighbors, likewise stuck in a blighted city without services as basic as a bus line? What they re left with, after decades of
LC Classification Number
HN80.D6K56 2016
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