Waterfront Porch
Waterfront Porch

Author: John H. Hartig

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781948314022

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This unique history depicts Detroit as a city of innovation, resilience, and leadership in responding to change, and examines the current sustainability paradigm shift to which Detroit is responding, pivoting as the city has done in the past to redefine itself and lead the nation and world down a more sustainable path. This book details the building of a new waterfront porch alongside the Detroit River called the Detroit RiverWalk to help revitalize the city and region and promote sustainability practices.

Portico
Portico

Author: University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Publisher: UM Libraries

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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A People's History of Detroit
A People's History of Detroit

Author: Mark Jay

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020-04-17

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1478009357

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Recent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city's cuts to public services, water shutoffs, mass foreclosures, and violent police raids. In A People's History of Detroit, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present, embedding Motown's history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit's past, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions, to deindustrialization and the city's recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit's history is not a tale of two cities—one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism's mandates.

Detroit
Detroit

Author: Joe Darden

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2010-06-18

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1439905002

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Examining the genesis of modern Detroit as a hub of wealth and poverty.