The city after property [electronic resource] : abandonment and repair in postindustrial Detroit / Sara Safransky.

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"In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit government officials classified a staggering 150,000 lots-more than a third of the city-as "vacant" or "abandoned." Analyzing subsequent efforts to shrink...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Safransky, Sara (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban > Michigan > Detroit.
Urban policy > Michigan > Detroit.
Housing > Abandonment > Michigan > Detroit.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions > 21st century.
Right of property > United States.
Property > Social aspects > United States.
Detroit (Mich.) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Online Access:
De Gruyter eBook Complete: 2023 (De Gruyter)
Variant Title:
The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Unbuilding a city
  • On our own ground
  • Stealing home
  • White picket fences
  • Accounting for unpayable debt
  • Conjuring Terra Nullius
  • Political ecologies of austerity
  • The garden is a weapon in the war.