Critical, wide-ranging analyses of Detroit’s redevelopment and alternative visions for its future.
In Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City, editors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering use chapters based on a variety of maps to shed light on how Detroit moved from frontier fort to thriving industrial metropolis to ...
Detroit in 50 Maps shows you the Motor City from entirely new perspectives, from neighborhood coffee shops to the legacy of redlining.
In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics.
They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This book is about the promises and perils of map thinking.
This important book documents how a committed work ethic, a well-developed spirit of resistance, and a deep sense of heritage continue to run strong through Detroit’s black community—providing the true engine propelling the city’s ...
Linda Campbell, Andrew Newman, Sara Safransky, and Tim Stallmann, eds., A People's Atlas of Detroit (Detroit: Wayne State University of Press, 2020), 99; Karen Marrero, Detroit's Hidden Channels: The Power of French Indigenous Families ...
Describes the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit.
The jumble of text, maps, and images makes it a particularly urgent book—a major theoretical contribution to urban geography that is also a startling evocation of street-level Detroit during a turbulent era.
" The second edition of A History of Wayne State University in Photographs compiles rare and intriguing images that will be make a perfect keepsake for current and former students, faculty and staff, and anyone interested in Detroit history ...
James Forman's membership in the League was understood by some members to have caused the split. As a nationally recognized organizer with a history in SNCC, Forman personified the elitedriven, ideological orientation that alienated ...