Detroit is no dry bones : the eternal city of the industrial age / Camilo José Vergara.

"Detroit has lost nearly sixty percent of its population since the mid-1950s. Ethnographer and photographer Camilo José Vergara has traveled to Detroit to document not only the city's precipitous decline but also how its residents have survived. Through annual visits to Detroit over the past twenty...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vergara, Camilo José (Author, Photographer)
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Inner cities > Michigan > Detroit > Pictorial works.
Detroit (Mich.) > Social conditions > Pictorial works.
Detroit (Mich.) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Pictorial works.
Detroit (Mich.) > Biography > Pictorial works.
Historic buildings > Michigan > Detroit > Pictorial works.
Buildings > Remodeling for other use > Michigan > Detroit > Pictorial works.
Urban renewal > Michigan > Detroit > Pictorial works.
Social change > Michigan > Detroit > Pictorial works.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Subjects & Themes > Architectural & Industrial.
Buildings.
Buildings > Remodeling for other use.
Historic buildings.
Inner cities.
Social change.
Social conditions.
Urban renewal.
Michigan > Detroit.
Pictorial works.
Genre:
Pictorial works.
Biography
Physical Description:v, 295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Camilo Vergara's Detroit / by Robert Fishman
  • Game changers
  • American acropolis: the end of an idea
  • Urban fabric
  • Traces fo past grandeur
  • Neighborhood landmarks
  • This is no Rome: ruins and desolate cityscapes
  • New life for former banks
  • To reach the lost: churches where everybody is somebody
  • Spirits of motor city: folk signs and murals
  • In Detroit, Jesus is the only star
  • Business-oriented signs
  • Celebrating black heroes and heroines
  • "It has nothing to do with race": Snow White, Snow Green, Snow Brown
  • "Gone but not forgotten": memorials
  • "You all came here and just marked up our entire city"
  • Brightmoor: the search for a Bucolic uptopia by the Rouge River
  • African American artists: history, remembrance, turf
  • Persistent blight, concentrated: an abbreviated street guide
  • Inner-city billboards
  • Extinguished neon signs
  • Street vendors
  • Doing business behind plexiglass
  • Oases admist desolation: Detroit's new architecture
  • "Farm city": replacing blight with beauty
  • Detroiters
  • "In the ghettohood": things get better slowly
  • Conclusion
  • Detroit's evolvoing ruins
  • Giving back to the community
  • No dry bones.